Monday, 22 April 2013

IVF babies may be at higher cancer risk

Children born after in vitro fertilization (IVF) or other fertility treatments appear to be at modestly elevated risk of cancer, although causality still isn't clear, a meta-analysis showed. The risk of any childhood cancer was 33% higher after medically-assisted reproduction compared with spontaneously conceived controls, Susanne Krüger Kjaer, MD, DMSc, of the Danish Cancer Society Research Center in Copenhagen, and colleagues found. Read more here.

Study mentioned: Hargreave M, et al. Fertility treatment and childhood cancer risk: a systematic meta-analysis. Fertil Steril. 2013 Apr 3. [Epub ahead of print] PMID: 23562045

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