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Samuel Shapiro, a visiting professor of epidemiology at University of Capetown, notes that any cancers that might have existed in breast tissue when these women stopped hormone therapy would not have simply disappeared post-treatment. "Once the growth of a tumor has accelerated, it can't be decelerated," he says. "I'm not aware of any evidence to show that happens...
Just about the time that eight babies began growing inside a California woman's womb, some nationwide policies about fertility treatment were being codified. In June, the American Society for Reproductive Medicine (ASRM) issued updated "Guidelines on Number of Embryos Transferred." Women under age 35 - the octuplets' mom is reportedly 33 - should attempt to transfer no more than two, and preferably only one, fertilized embryo at a time. Women over age 40 should attempt no more than five. (See pictures of multiple births...
...must report to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention the number of embryos transferred in each IVF cycle - in which sperm and egg are fertilized outside a woman's body, then transferred to her uterus - as well as the number of babies born as a result of that treatment cycle. (Read "A Brief History Of: Multiple Births...
...where fertility treatment is often scoffed at by insurance companies, women paying for the costly procedures out of pocket want to wind up with a baby as quickly - and cheaply - as possible. One IVF cycle can cost upwards of $10,000. Often, women decide their best shot is by increasing the number of embryos transferred...
...meantime, the subject of how the California woman came to deliver eight babies - 10 years after a Houston woman gave birth to the first-known living octuplets - is preoccupying fertility doctors across the country. The ASRM is caught up in the craziness too. "If this resulted from an IVF treatment, we can say that transferring eight embryos in an IVF cycle is well beyond our guidelines," the group's president, R. Dale McClure, said in a statement issued four days after Kaiser Permanente Medical Center in Bellflower, a Los Angeles suburb, announced the babies' birth. "We have a process...