Cancer-surviving women a third less likely to become pregnant, study finds
by Ian Sample Science editor from on (#2VJC5)
Impact of cancer and treatment on female fertility has much improved in recent years, finds survey of 23,000 medical records
Women who survived cancer in the past 30 years were a third less likely to become pregnant than women in the general population, according to study into the impact of the disease and its treatment on patients.
The research provides the first broad assessment of how cancer, the fertility-harming therapies that patients receive, and the decisions women make on leaving hospital, can affect their plans for a family.