Transplanting your own frozen testicle tissue for future fertility
Part of Blood & lymphatic, Cancer clinical trials.
This trial studies transplanting frozen testicular tissue back into the body to help restore fertility later. It is meant for people who preserved testicular tissue as children before cancer or a blood disorder treatment.
Summary written for real people, not researchers, by Clin2.
Who can take part
- You are at least 18 years old (or the patient is the adult who will receive the transplant)
- Your cancer or blood disorder is in complete remission
- Semen tests (from used sperm attempts) show there aren’t usable sperm, based on two tests
- Your blood tests before surgery are within normal limits
- Your frozen tissue test suggests there are stem cells that can help make sperm (or your case is reviewed if not)
- Your doctors consider the chance of cancer cells inside the frozen tissue to be very low, and you can agree in writing to follow-up
Quick eligibility check
Answer a few plain-language questions, based on this study's own requirements, to get a preliminary sense of fit.
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