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Fertility Drugs Linked to Increased Risk of Leukemia

A new study, presented at a conference on childhood cancer in London, suggests there’s a possible link between the use of fertility drugs and leukemia.

FOX News Radio’s Lisa Brady has details:

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Researchers based in Paris says children whose moms took fertility drugs were more than twice as likely to develop two kinds of leukemia: the most common kind and a rare type.  They also found a 50% higher risk for children of mothers who struggled to conceive for more than a year.

However, the study stops far short of proving any direct link between fertility drugs and leukemia, and also did not find a higher risk among women who had artificial insemination or in-vitro fertilization, even though most IVF patients also take fertility drugs.

Lisa Brady, FOX News Radio.

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2 Comments

  1. rondapeterson

    April 24, 2012 at 9:19 pm

    Wouldn't it be interesting if they study which other factors that lead the leukemia. I believe that fertility drugs are not the only factors. If those who take fertility drugs then have leukemia, they could probably have it genetically or because of bad way of life, bad food, no sport etc.

  2. Trisha

    April 30, 2012 at 9:20 pm

    IVF is a ticking timebomb. If you can't reproduce the old fashioned way, maybe there's a reason. Ivf also causes cancer down the road in women and child.