Study finds no fertility drug, ovarian cancer link

By Kerry Grens NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Despite lingering concerns that using fertility drugs might raise a woman’s chances for later developing ovarian cancer, new research suggests the drugs don’t contribute any added risk. “One important message is women who need to use fertility drugs to get pregnant should not worry about using these fertility drugs,” said Dr. Albert Asante, lead author of the study and a clinical fellow in the division of reproductive endocrinology at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota. Research on fertility drugs and cancer risk has yielded conflicting results. …