New Study Says Fertility Drugs Do Not Lead to Breast Cancer -- With Caveats
I'm still not convinced but a new study has found that fertility drugs do not lead to breast cancer. Maybe it's just anecdotal but I and quite a few of my friends who have had this kind of treatment have developed breast cancer. My thought is that it's from all the estrogen we take to try to sustain a pregnancy when we can't do it on our own. Women who took Clomid or gonadotropins as a part of fertility treatment did not experience an increased risk for breast cancer over 30 years of follow-up, compared with women who were not treated with these medication, according to newswise.com. Now I took the more hard-core injectible meds, not the pills you just swallowed, so maybe that's part of it (although gonadotropins do include some of those meds). An elevated risk for invasive breast cancer was observed for a small number of women who were exposed to 12 or more cycles of clomiphene, who had a little more than 1.5 times the risk of women in the study who ne...