A Japanese hospital has set up a project team to consider womb transplants for women born without a uterus or whose uterus has been surgically removed for cancer or other conditions, the hospital told Kyodo News on Wednesday.
A Japanese hospital has set up a project team to consider womb transplants for women born without a uterus or whose uterus has been surgically removed for cancer or other conditions, the hospital told Kyodo News on Wednesday.
While successful uterus transplants have been carried out overseas, Japanese Red Cross Nagoya Daini Hospital is only the second hospital in Japan to take up the issue after Keio University Hospital was found earlier this year to be mulling whether to ask its ethics committee within the year for a clinical study.
