IVF doesn’t raise breast cancer risk, study shows A new large, comprehensive study found in vitro fertilization, or IVF, doesn’t raise a woman’s risk of developing breast cancer. They found IVF treatment, compared with non-IVF treatment, was not associated with increased risk of breast cancer after a median follow-up of 21 years. It could be thanks to background noise at home or at school, say University of Wisconsin-Madison researchers. “Breast cancer risk among IVF-treated women was also not significantly different from that in the general population,” the authors wrote in the study, published this month in the Journal of the American Medical Association. Louder background noise hindered the children’s ability to learn words, concludes the new study, published in the journal Child Development.

Source: thestar July 25, 2016 09:56 UTC