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...some women's health advocates say that evidence isn't strong enough, calling for further study and a national, trackable registry of egg donors. While the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) logs the number of donated eggs transferred to infertile women each year - there were some 15,500 in 2006, the most recent year for which data are available - no one knows how many individual donors those eggs came from, who they were or whether they were exceeding industry guidelines of six donations in a lifetime. (The guidelines are intended to limit the number of offspring from...
...Right now egg donors are treated like vendors, not as patients. Patients need to be followed up," says internist Jennifer Schneider, who has been advocating for the government to track egg donors since 2007, a few years after her daughter, a three-time egg donor, died of colon cancer at age 31. "After the first few days of being discharged from the IVF clinic and seeing that there were no immediate consequences, they are never contacted again...
...issue has resurfaced recently, with fertility clinics and egg-donation agencies across the country reporting a precipitous increase in applicants seeking to donate eggs - as high as 55% over the past four months compared with the same period last year. With college students struggling to pay tuition and young homeowners facing foreclosures, much has been made of the potential economic benefits of donation, a term that belies its lucrativeness: egg donors can earn about $5,000 per donation, with thousands more in premiums for eggs from women with exceptional looks, high SAT scores or an Ivy League diploma...
...Reproductive-health advocates respond by calling for a study of egg donors, who could also serve as a natural control group for a study of cancer in women who are treated for infertility. Another long-standing question among doctors and donors is whether egg donation affects future fertility, says Schneider, who has conducted a survey of 155 egg donors and heard several reports of fertility problems among women post-donation. Schneider concedes that her poll was too informal and small to lead to any conclusions and suggests that a larger, national study be undertaken...
...serious short-term risks of egg donation are much better understood: ovarian hyperstimulation syndrome, ovarian torsion or ruptured ovarian cysts. In late 2008, a study of 587 egg donors who underwent a total of 973 cycles of ovarian stimulation at a single clinic in New York City found serious complications in 0.7% of the cycles and minor complications severe enough to prompt donors to seek medical attention in 8.5% of the cycles...