Across the globe, there are numerous couples who due to reproductive issue, unable to conceive by their own thus seeking the suitable solution to have own child. Ovulation induction medication is one of the most common techniques to solve the infertility issues. This technique has been considered the best way to solve the fertility issue and also the most important drugs utilized for the treatment of infertility. During the IVF and other advanced fertility treatment, the role of the ovulation medication or stimulation medication is so very significant in order to come up with the positive result. Now the question occurs, do these medication cause cancer? What about the IVF treatment – do this treatment grounds for the cancer issue?
Undeniably, the fertility drugs come up with certain risks and side-effects, but should the couples be concerned about the risk of cancer? Let’s take a look of the IVF treatment and whether this treatment increases the chance of cancer or not –
It is the most widely used type of assisted reproductive treatment that has provided and continues to provide the facility of having a baby without undergoing the natural process of conceiving. The most common reason people take the plunge to experience this process is infertility, which is a condition that impairs the ability of a couple to bear their own child.
In 2005, there were some reports that came in the support of Clomid use might add to the risk of uterine cancer in the women. Since then, there have been more studies and researches done to justify the statement whether the IVF causes cancer in the woman, and the results by most of the studies have shown that NO – IVF doesn’t come with the cancer risk. There is not such any validation or justification found on the basis of the proclamation of IVF treatment for causing the cancer disorder.
In fact, a review of 2019 has stated and confirmed that there is not any correlation between the utilization of the fertility drugs in the IVF treatment and cancer – this is because of estrogen save from harm against the colorectal cancer – on the basis of this statement, IVF instead of causing the cancer, decreases the chances of cancer in women who undergo with the fertility drugs during the IVF.
From the past few years, infertility or IVF is being linked to cancer for some unknown reasons but there has been no concrete evidence in support of the assumption. The risk of an IVF treatment being a potential cause of infertility is very rare as the treatment in itself does not involve anything that would harm a patient’s health. However, the fertility drugs given to induce the ovulation cycle hardly be a reason for the enhanced chances of cancer risk.
At Select IVF India, our IVF specialist work diligently to find the potential cause of infertility in the patient and evaluate the possibility of them developing any type of cancer, before operating them for the fertility treatment. Whether IVF treatment causes cancer or not, has been the topic of discussion for decades. They make sure that patients receive the best fertility treatment involving fewer chances of another kind of complication.
Fertility drugs are prescribed to the patients to stimulate their ovaries to make them produce a substantial quantity of healthy eggs. According to a famous study, Clomid is a fertility drug that puts the patient under the risk of uterine cancer. While in some of the cases it may have happened that the patient developed cancer after the IVF but what they fail to show is the full background of the patient and the exact cause of them being at a higher risk of cancer. For instance, obese women who have undergone an IVF cycle is subjected to cancer later on, but the underlying cause of her cancer could be her weight or other health conditions and not her taking the fertility medication.
Ovarian stimulation is a hormonal treatment done for patients undergoing fertility treatment. To stimulate the ovaries, the woman has to take some medicines that would let the ovaries produce a sufficient quantity of quality eggs and this stimulation is done in a controlled manner. This stimulation substantially increases the amount of female sex hormones estrogen and progesterone at a rate normal than usual. This high level of hormones is usually connected to the chances of breast cancer but only a few breast cancer cases are reported to be caused by ovarian stimulation and there is not enough evidence to confirm this possibility.
Yet, there is not clear statement on the account of whether IVF cause the breast cancer. Some researchers have stated that those women who had undergone four to five IVF cycles or more compared to the females who had one or two IVF cycles – though, the statement is not justified why this is.
According to various studies and researches, where women who underwent the IVF treatment were analyzed for different types of cancer risks. Whilst there was no link found between the IVF treatment and the breast or uterine cancer, but there was a certain degree of risk associated with ovarian cancer for the women who had experienced one or more IVF cycles. Although there is a slight risk of getting ovarian cancer for women undergone IVF but still is identifiable. However, the increased risk of any type of cancer is not solely attributed to IVF treatment and is linked to some pre-existing health conditions in the woman. Women who are undergoing the IVF treatment to treat the infertility issue had 15 in 10,000 possibility of developing ovarian cancer; while women who had never gone through the IVF treatment had approximate 11 in 10,000 possibility. The risk of causing the ovarian cancer is small but significant to be recognized.
Also, endometrial is another form of cancer that is often observed to be caused by an IVF treatment, but until now there has been no studies found to back up this observation. The cause of endometrial cancer is frequently connected to the use of fertility drugs, but there is no clarity on this topic as well owing to the inadequate amount of studies and absence of relevant sources of information.
The conclusion is various types of cancers caused are largely due to the patient characteristics and are seldom caused by undergoing an IVF or other fertility treatment; it is unfair to explicitly say that IVF treatment causes cancer. It might have happened in some of the cases that fertility treatment was the reason for cancer but there are not enough reports and evidence to confirm fertility treatment the sole reason for the development of cancer in a woman. Select IVF India is a widely acknowledged medical tourism company in India that operates in liaison with some of the finest fertility specialists and hospitals all over the world.
Our fertility experts have over two decades of experience in providing a superlative quality fertility treatment. Moreover, they offer their services at the best price possible, which is not too heavy on your pocket. Our success rates for fertility treatments are considerably high and our high success rates are the main reason why patients across the world choose India for their medical tourism.
We understand that the infertility issue is critical and must be handled carefully. IVF is complete safe and secure procedure. However the team of Select IVF India strongly recommends the patients to undergo complete fertility evaluation test and if any past medical issue has happened, then the couple must talk to the senior specialist about that.
IVF is a famous fertility treatment option that facilitates pregnancy via a technical method. It’s a long procedure involving various steps such as fertility medication, semen collection, fertilization, embryo development, embryo transfer and at last pregnancy happens only after the successful completion of all the aforementioned steps.
We perform the IVF and other advanced ART technique keeping all the significant points in the prior list of the patient and make sure the couple gets the best treatment of the IVF procedure at an authentic price. If you have more queries, chat with our fertility chat experts or you can fill the form, we will get back to you shortly!
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PRADIP ADHYA
Excellent
Well explained