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Article Source: New York Post"It was important that I found a way to allow her to have children," her mom, Tikesha Lee, 32, told The Post.
"It was hard enough to find out your baby needs to go through chemotherapy, but to hear your daughter will be sterile after the treatment -- that one thing gets healed, but another destroyed -- I felt someone punched me in the stomach," her mom said.
The doctor has already performed the surgery on some 40 girls under the age of 18. The previous youngest was 3 years old.
... adult patients are only separated from their ovaries for a couple of years -- not decades, like Oktay's kid patients.
"This is experimental -- down the road, they may or may not get any benefit," Oktay said.
In the last year, Oktay has also operated on a half-dozen boys with serious illnesses to preserve a small part of their testicles. The hope is that one day this tissue can be used to produce sperm.
The parents who see the doctor are upset their kids so early on are losing the potential to someday procreate.
"You have a child, and you expect your child to have a child, and that you will become grandparents," Oktay said. "Now, [they're] saying OK to a treatment that will make her infertile
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