Table 1 Patient clinical characteristics and comparison of telomere lengths in DNA extracted from the cells of the control and slow-frozen ovarian tissues obtained from ten patients.

From: Changes in telomere length and senescence markers during human ovarian tissue cryopreservation

Patient no

Age

Telomere length (bp)

Diagnosis

Treatment

Control

Slow-freezing

1

21

11.665

9.429

Endometrioma, right ovary

Pelviscopic right ovarian cystectomy

2

25

9.401

7.329

Endometrioma, both ovaries

Pelviscopic bilateral ovarian cystectomy

3

28

10.310

9.918

Breast cancer

Robot-assisted right oophorectomy for ovarian tissue cryopreservation

4

32

10.739

10.065

Endometrioma, both ovaries

Pelviscopic bilateral ovarian cystectomy

5

34

10.680

10.540

Endometrioma, left ovary

Pelviscopic left oophorectomy

6

16

8.783

8.123

Dermoid cyst, right ovary

Pelviscopic right ovarian cystectomy

7

22

7.473

4.809

Dermoid cyst, right ovary

Pelviscopic right ovarian cystectomy

8

34

9.872

8.30

Endometrioma, right ovary

Robot-assisted right ovarian cystectomy

9

28

6.970

6.132

Endometrioma, both ovaries

Pelviscopic bilateral ovarian cystectomy

10

31

9.780

8.800

Dermoid cyst, left ovary

Pelviscopic left ovarian cystectomy