Saving fertility for cancer survivors?

Young women with cancer often suffer premature ovarian failure and thus infertility after chemotherapy or radiation therapy. There hasn’t been a way to protect women against such damage, says Fran�ois Paris of the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York.

However, in the October 2000 Nature Medicine, he and his colleagues showed that a compound called sphingosine-1-phosphate, given before anticancer radiation, protects mouse ovaries.