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No tie found between fertility drugs, cancer. (Analysis of Eight Studies).

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| March 01, 2002 | Evans, Jeff | COPYRIGHT 2002 International Medical News Group. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

Women who have tried to become pregnant without success have an elevated overall risk of ovarian cancer that does not appear to be associated with fertility drugs, reported Dr. Roberta B. Ness of the University of Pittsburgh, and her colleagues.

In an analysis of eight studies that included a total of 5,207 women who had ovarian cancer and 7,705 control women, those who had never been pregnant were 2.4 times more likely to have ovarian cancer than those with four or more pregnancies. Women who were never pregnant but tried to become pregnant for more than 5 years were 2.7 times more likely to have ovarian cancer than were those women who tried for less than 1 year.

Of 2,397 subfertile women--those who sought medical attention for infertility or tried for at least 2 years to get pregnant--14.6% took fertility drugs. Regardless of whether subfertile women were ever pregnant, any exposure to either clomiphene, human menopausal gonadotrophin, ...

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