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A new study claims that the risk of a certain class of cancer is increased after a process used to induce in vitro fertilization (IVF), the fertilization of eggs and sperm outside the body.
The study, released October 26 from the Netherlands Cancer Institute focused on ovarian stimulation, which induces IVF. The researchers found that women who had gone through ovarian stimulation were four times as likely as women who had not to develop borderline ovarian cancer. This is a striking figure, although the malignancy is thankfully "highly treatable."
The study followed over 25,000 women under the age of 40 for 15 years. 19,000 women went through ovarian stimulation and 6,000 went to fertility clinics and did not go through the procedure.
There was no link between ovarian stimulation and invasive ovarian cancer, which is cancer that originates inside the ovaries and spreads. Borderline ovarian cancer, the cancer with which the correlation was found, originates on the epithelium, or surface, of the ovary and is less dangerous. Among all 25,000 women, total ovarian cancers affected 0.45% of the population. Among those who had IVF, the figure rose to only 0.71%. In other words, IVF contributes minimally to total ovarian cancers. The real difference is in the borderline ovarian tumors.
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