Cancer patients lose chance of children after hospital destroys frozen sperm

Cancer patients face being told they have lost the chance to father children after a scandal-hit NHS fertility unit accidentally destroyed their frozen sperm.

The samples came from men who were preparing to undergo surgery or radiotherapy for conditions such as testicular cancer and leukaemia. 

Such treatment can leave patients infertile, so the men had chosen to freeze their sperm at IVF Wales in Cardiff in the hope it would allow them to have children in the future.

But in an appalling blunder, an unknown number of samples were thrown out in March 2011, and an urgent investigation has been launched to determine which patients have been affected.   Read Here