Cancer morbidity in a cohort of 9175 Finnish women treated for infertility
Author(s) -
A.- N. Yli-Kuha,
Mika Gissler,
Reija Klemetti,
Riitta Luoto,
Elina Hemminki
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
human reproduction
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.446
H-Index - 226
eISSN - 1460-2350
pISSN - 0268-1161
DOI - 10.1093/humrep/des031
Subject(s) - medicine , gynecology , obstetrics , breast cancer , cancer , odds ratio , incidence (geometry) , cohort study , cohort , population , case control study , ovarian cancer , confidence interval , infertility , pregnancy , biology , genetics , physics , environmental health , optics
Results of earlier studies on cancer risk in infertile women are inconsistent for many cancer types. Our goal was to study cancer incidence among a cohort of women treated with IVF, including ICSI and frozen embryo transfer (FET), compared with that of a control population.
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