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A British fertility company is offering women a surgical procedure to delay the menopause. The technique involves removing and freezing sections of one of a woman鈥檚 ovaries, and then grafting the stored tissue under the skin in the armpit when she begins her menopause. The company鈥檚 founder Prof Simon Fishel says a number of grafts could postpone the menopause by 20 years. Dr Melanie Davies is a consultant gynaecologist at University College London Hospital. She tells Claudia Hammond why she is sceptical about the claimed advantages of this procedure over hormone replacement therapy.

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