Fertility treatments among female cancer survivors giving birth - a Finnish register-based study.

CONCLUSIONS: Our study supports previous findings indicating that cancer survivors have an increased risk for subfertility. Survivors diagnosed in their childhood had the lowest risk for fertility treatment and seemed to get pregnant with less extensive fertility treatments than survivors diagnosed as adults. Time elapsed from cancer treatment played a central role, increasing the need for fertility treatments compared to siblings, suggesting that cancer therapies might lead to diminished ovarian reserve.
PMID: 28339338 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

Source: Acta Oncologica - March 24, 2017 Category: Cancer & Oncology Authors: Melin J, Madanat-Harjuoja L, Heinävaara S, Malila N, Gissler M, Tiitinen A Tags: Acta Oncol Source Type: research