The latest edition of the Journal of Assisted Reproduction and Genetics has published the findings of a South Korean research team that helped conceive and deliver a baby from the frozen eggs of a leukemia patient.

The team at Cha Hospital in southern Seoul said Wednesday that the patient had her eggs frozen when she was 22. The team said the women's eggs were thawed nine years later after her recovery, and she gave birth to a healthy baby last July following in-vitro fertilization.

It is the first domestic case where a cancer patient has given birth from eggs that were frozen before anticancer treatment.