Summary
- Jaiwen Hsu was diagnosed with osteosarcoma as a child, and faced chemotherapy, which can cause infertility.
- As he was not yet in puberty, sperm banking was not an option, so he enrolled in a study.
- This involved collecting and storing immature testicular tissue, in order to provide men with the potential for biological children in the future.
- Now 26, Hsu is set to be the first person to undergo an experimental transplant of the preserved cells.
- This will see the extracted cells injected into Hsu’s testes in the hope that they will develop into mature sperm.
- Hsu and his doctors will not know if the procedure was successful until he decides to try to have children.
By Emily Mullin
Original Article