Fertility

Women cured of childhood leukemia should have children while they are young

Published in Women's Health Weekly, August 22nd, 2002

Women who have survived having leukemia as children should receive fertility counseling because their reproductive life may be shortened even though they have an apparently normal menstrual cycle after treatment, according to Danish researchers.

Dr. Elisabeth Larsen, a research assistant from the Fertility Clinic at Copenhagen University Hospital, has studied 26 long-term survivors of acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) and found that they tended to have smaller ovaries with fewer follicles available in each menstrual cycle. However, the good news was that their ovaries appeared to be functioning normally in all other respects, she told the annual conference of the...

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Source: Women's Health Weekly (2002-08-22)

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