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Woman gives birth after ovarian tissue frozen for more than 20 years
Kassandra Bacon was 17 when she was diagnosed with Hodgkin lymphoma, a cancer affecting the lymphatic system.
After the cancer returned, she needed urgent, aggressive treatment, which doctors warned could harm her fertility.
Because there was no time to wait for the hormone treatment needed to freeze eggs, she chose an experimental option: removing and freezing ovarian tissue.
Her cancer treatment worked, but it damaged her ovaries, and she entered menopause at 33.
After a decade of searching, she found a clinic in Ramat Gan, Israel, willing to reimplant the tissue, which had been frozen for 23 years.
The procedure was delayed after the Hamas attacks on Israel in October 2023 and the Israeli military offensive in Gaza; a temporary ceasefire in May 2024 allowed her to travel for it.
At 44, Bacon gave birth to her first child, a boy named Landon, believed to be the first baby born from ovarian tissue reimplanted after more than 20 years of freezing.
Kassandra Bacon gave birth to her first child after ovarian tissue frozen for 23 years was reimplanted.
Bacon was 17 when she chose ovarian tissue freezing before aggressive cancer treatment.
The treatment damaged her ovaries, and she entered early menopause at 33.
After a decade-long search, she had the tissue reimplanted at Sheba Medical Center in Israel.
Landon is believed to be the first baby born from reimplanted ovarian tissue frozen for more than 20 years.
- Who
- Kassandra Bacon gave birth to her son, Landon.
- What
- She gave birth after ovarian tissue frozen for 23 years was reimplanted.
- When
- She gave birth last month, according to the article published on October 12, 2026.
- Where
- The tissue was reimplanted at Sheba Medical Center in Ramat Gan, Israel.
- Why
- Bacon had frozen the tissue before aggressive cancer treatment that doctors expected could damage her fertility.
This story does not have two clearly opposing sides.
Bacon was diagnosed with Hodgkin lymphoma and chose to have ovarian tissue frozen before aggressive treatment.
Her cancer returned in a more serious form, and she began treatment that included chemotherapy and a bone marrow transplant.
Bacon entered early menopause.
A temporary ceasefire allowed Bacon to travel to Israel for the tissue reimplantation procedure.
Bacon gave birth to her first child, a boy named Landon.
- Age at tissue freezing
- 17
- Time frozen
- 23 years
- Age at early menopause
- 33
- Reimplantation location
- Sheba Medical Center, Ramat Gan, Israel
- Child
- Landon, Bacon’s first child
What people are saying
It’s not something you want to go through when you’re having driving lessons and in the middle of high school finals. It was difficult
I don’t know why, but I just couldn’t accept the idea that there was nothing I could do to give me hope if things turned out as they did and I couldn’t get pregnant naturally
Will my only hope be destroyed?
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