Can a Father's Age - Young or Old - Affect His Daughter's Chance of Cancer?
Now here's something new for older fathers to worry about. A father's age at birth may affect a daughter's risk of breast cancer later in life. First it's schizophrenia that may appear in children, with older fathers. Then it was autism. And now this. I'm ashamed to say this but I'm glad sperm is starting to get the same treatment as old eggs. But wait a minute. We're talking about really young fathers, with some kinds of cancers. While the team of researchers did not find an association for maternal age at birth for any type of cancer, they found that paternal age is linked to an increased adult-onset cancer risk for daughters – and the link was not only to advanced paternal age. Newswise.com reports that " parental age, especially paternal age, at conception appears to be associated with a wide range of effects on the health and development of the offspring. Women born to a father under the age of 20 had a 35 percent greater risk of...