24 Oct 2025

The NZ doctor providing rare fertility-saving help

From Afternoons, 1:25 pm on 24 October 2025

Imagine being told, as a teenager, that the treatment that could save your life might also take away your chance to ever have children. 

Well, there’s one doctor in New Zealand providing a rare fertility-saving procedure to change this. 

Dr Leigh Searle helps girls who are about to start cancer treatment by removing and freezing a tiny piece of their ovary — a literal time-capsule of fertility that could one day give them the chance to have children.