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...there have been no long-term medical studies of donors. But fertility doctors agree that a lot can be gleaned from the smattering of studies of long-term risks for infertility patients, who receive the same protocol for ovarian stimulation and retrieval as donors. The primary health concern is cancer, and studies assessing cancer rates among infertility patients have drawn conflicting results. Many such studies are hobbled by small sample groups, or are too short term. The most extensive study to date, published in February in the American Journal of Epidemiology, used historical data from women who gave birth...
...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...
...Those seemingly contradictory conclusions are part of the results of the Prostate, Lung, Colorectal and Ovarian Cancer Screening trial (PLCO), a sweeping, 17-year project conducted by the National Cancer Institute (NCI). The prostate findings were published online on March 18 in the New England Journal of Medicine, and while they may leave many men scratching their head, they do offer some valuable information about the benefit of screening. (Read "Vitamins Do Not Prevent Prostate Cancer, Study Finds...
...done so quickly. Tucker was able to have her ovary removed right away - unlike harvesting eggs, which can take weeks - and that meant she could begin her cancer treatment without delay. It would take another decade for Tucker to start thinking about children or reimplanting the ovarian tissue. "Basically, Dr. Silber had said, 'It doesn't matter when you put it back in. It's the ovary of a 20-year-old,' " Tucker says...
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