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A British fertility company is offering women a surgical procedure to delay the menopause. The technique involves removing and freezing sections of one of a woman’s ovaries, and then grafting the stored tissue under the skin in the armpit when she begins her menopause. The company’s founder Prof Simon Fishel says a number of grafts could postpone the menopause by 20 years. Dr Melanie Davies is a consultant gynaecologist at University College London Hospital. She tells Claudia Hammond why she is sceptical about the claimed advantages of this procedure over hormone replacement therapy. (Image: Three middle-aged women resting after jogging. Credit: Getty Images.)