Assisted Reproduction

IVF not ruled out for patients treated for borderline ovarian tumors

Published in Women's Health Weekly, November 11th, 2004

Patients whose borderline malignant ovarian tumors are caught early and conservatively treated, leaving the unaffected ovary and/or the uninvaded portion of the affected ovary intact, may consider in vitro fertilization (IVF) as treatment for infertility.

Doctors at the Weill Medical College of Cornell University in New York reviewed the records of five patients treated in their IVF clinic from 1997 to 2003 who had previously been treated for borderline ovarian tumors. The patients, none of whom had given birth in the past, were from 22 to 40 years old when they were diagnosed with ovarian tumors. The average time elapsed between the diagnosis of a patient's tumor and...

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Source: Women's Health Weekly (2004-11-11)

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