July 16, 2010 Thirteen years ago, when Amy Tucker was 19 years old, she faced a diagnosis of advanced cancer and the certainty of never having children, even if her cancer could be cured. Today, Tucker is cancer-free. She is also the mother of a beautiful baby boy, thanks to fertility preservation procedures performed by […]
by Kelsey Volkmann July 16, 2010 A Columbia, Ill., woman is the first cancer survivor in the United States to give birth to a baby as a result of ovary freezing and transplantation, thanks to fertility preservation procedures performed at St. Luke’s Hospital in Chesterfield. Thirteen years ago, when Amy Tucker, then 19, was diagnosed […]
by Rebecca Smith, Medical EditorTelegraph.co.uk, November 17, 2008 The ‘daring’ operation to transplant the ovary involved surgeons connecting blood vessels as thin as a human hair. The groundbreaking surgery is the first such procedure that has resulted in a successful pregnancy and birth. Dr. Sherman Silber, of the Infertility Centre of St Louis, in Missouri, […]
by Catherine Donaldson-Evans AOL Health, June 1, 2010 Suzanne Gastineau got pregnant with her first baby so easily, it never occurred to her that a few years later, she would be trying to conceive her second for a year-and-a-half with no results. The St. Louis-area resident and IT specialist was 38 years old when she […]
By Barbara Maynard St. Louis Business Journal, October 5, 2007 For three decades, Dr. Sherman Silber, 65, has been treating difficult cases at The Infertility Center of St. Louis on the campus of St. Luke’s Hospital in Chesterfield. Silber either developed or perfected many of the techniques he uses. His career is a succession of […]
by Julie Brown Patton West News Magazine July 28, 2010 An infertility specialist at St. Luke’s Hospital started innovative fertility preservation [watch video] three decades ago, and a local cancer survivor is ecstatic that he did. When Amy Tucker was 19, she was diagnosed with advanced cancer and was told she would never have children, […]
by Brian Alexander Livestrong Quarterly – LIVESTRONGMagazine.com, Summer/Fall 2011 Cancer takes away so much from too many. Fertility medicine has stepped in with newfound successes, long-awaited births, and mind-boggling solutions that together say to cancer: That’s enough. Looking back now, to the summer of ’97 she’d rather forget, Amy Tucker then 19, was launching out of […]
The Top 10 Medical Stories of 2008 by Lauren Cox and Dan Childs ABC News, December 24, 2008 This year marked a number of important medical advances and intriguing health news. To help narrow the large list, ABCNews.com reached out to the top medical centers and doctors in a wide range of fields… No. 2: […]
ABC News, March 1, 2007 Copyright © 2007 ABC News Internet Ventures Ever since they were little, sisters Joy Lagos and Maeapple Chaney have been close. “She was always standing up for me,” Lagos says of her sister. “She was always making sure that I was taken care of.” But while they have shared much […]
Beating the Clock? Frozen Ovaries Make Headlines By Cindy Haines, M.D., Special to the Beacon St. Louis Beacon, November 14, 2008 More women are waiting to start their families, delaying pregnancy until their mid- to late-30s, 40s and beyond. While pregnancy in a woman’s later years can carry some complications, “the biggest risk of delaying […]
Baby Girl Born From Full Ovary Transplant Reuters, December 11th, 2008 By Gene Emery Edited by Maggie Fox and David Wiessler (Published in Huffington Post, Reuters, and Yahoo News) Doctors in St. Louis said they have successfully transplanted a full ovary from a volunteer, allowing her infertile twin sister to give birth to a healthy […]
Editorial by Dr. Sherman J. Silber, M.D. IVF NEWS.Direct!, April/June 2011 Dr. Sherman J. Silber, a pioneer in microsurgery and infertility, is considered a leading authority on IVF, sperm retrieval, ICSI, vasectomy reversal, tubal ligation reversal, egg and embryo freezing, testicle and ovary freezing and transplantation, and the reproductive biological clock. He performed the world’s first […]
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