Association Between Fertility Treatment and Cancer Risk in Children.

ABSTRACT: Importance:An increasing number of children worldwide are born after the use of fertility treatment, although it remains unclear whether the treatment affects the risk of childhood cancer and whether any associations observed are due to the use of specific drugs, the use of specific procedures, or the underlying infertility. Objective:To examine the association between different types of fertility treatments and cancer risk in children. Design, Setting, and Participants:A retrospective cohort study based on Danish population-based registry data and the Danish Infertility Cohort (individual record linkage) that included 1 085 172 children born in Denmark between January 1, 1996, and December 31, 2012, linked with parental information. There were a total of 2217 children diagnosed with cance

SUBMITTER: Hargreave M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7081748 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature