london ( ap ) — a swedish doctor says four women who received transplanted wombs have had embryos transferred into them in an attempt to get pregnant .
the women received wombs from dead
swedish medical team hoping for world first as women born without uterus or who lost it to cancer get embryo transfers four of nine women given pioneering womb transplants in sweden have now also had embryos transferred , the pioneering swedish doctor treating them has said .
 
in all , nine women in sweden have received new wombs since 2012 , but two had to have them removed because of complications .
there have been two previous attempts to transplant a womb — in turkey and saudi arabia — but both failed to produce babies .
 
in a study published last week , the team said that there were " mild rejection episodes " in four women who received donated wombs .
dr mats brannstrom , professor of obstetrics and gynaecology at gothenburg university , said his team had embarked on a programme of embryo transfer for the women , who were either born without a womb or lost it as a result of cancer .