Several days ago, the American Society of Clinical Oncology issued new guidelines concerning the preservation of fertility during cancer treatments. Many treatments for cancer will lead to infertility if precautionary measures are not taken before treatment begins. The two methods of fertility preservation with the highest likelihood of success for cancer patients are embryo cryopreservation for women and sperm cryopreservation for men. Today, I came across a news story describing another option called ovarian transposition. In the article about dreams surviving cancer, surgeons made tiny incisions in Carrie Lintner's abdomen and gently pulled her ovaries behind her uterus, where they were held in place with a few stitches. The uterus shielded her ovaries from the damaging radiation beams from the treatment she received for her recurrent Hodgkin's lymphoma. The ovarian transposition procedure took 30 minutes and saved her ability to give birth. Ms. Lintner, who is now cancer-free, is the mother of a baby girl, Maia.