In an amazing story highlighting modern science's ability to transmit life rather than destroy it, a woman in Belgium has given birth "after doctors restored her fertility using frozen ovary tissue removed in her childhood, in a world first which could give hope to hundreds of young cancer victims."

Having her ovaries removed and frozen at age 13 before starting chemotherapy for sickle cell anaemia, which would've destroyed her fertility, the woman, now 28, had her fertility restored by having doctors thaw out 15 fragments of ovarian tissue, "with four grafted on to the remaining left ovary, which was no longer functioning."

"Because the existing organ had atrophied, medics were unable to graft more tissue to it, so eleven further fragments were secured under the skin, and in the area around the abdomen," reports The Telegraph. "This triggered a hormonal response in the body, the growth of follicles containing maturing eggs, and the start of menstruation."

The woman became pregnant two years later at age 27 after leaving her previously infertile boyfriend and starting a new relationship. She delivered a healthy boy in November 2014, weighing just under seven pounds