October is being observed as Breast Cancer Month and as
such, my Friday posts will largely surround this theme.
When I was taking fertility drugs, outside of the fact that
they had such horrible side effects for me, I often wondered what other effects
they were having on my body. Was I at increased risks for breast cancer or
ovarian cancer, etc.
According to a study published in Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers
& Prevention, a journal of the American
Association for Cancer Research, women who took the common fertility drug, clomiphene citrate (clomid)
as part of their fertility treatment, did not experience increased risk for
breast cancer, compared to women who did not take this drug.
Under current practices, clomiphene citrate is limited to three
to six cycles with doses up to 100mg. A small group of women who took up 12
cycles however, saw an elevated risk of breast cancer 1.5 times the risks of
women who did not take this drug. “This could be a result of persistent
infertility rather than effects of this drug,” said Dr. Louise A. Brinton, Ph.D., M.P.H., chief of the Hormonal and
Reproductive Epidemiology Branch at the National Cancer Institute (NCI) in
Bethesda, Md.
Read more, by visiting the link below:-
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