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Reports summarize infertility study results from New York Medical College

Published in Women's Health Weekly, November 11th, 2010

A report, 'Association of BRCA1 mutations with occult primary ovarian insufficiency: a possible explanation for the link between infertility and breast/ovarian cancer risks,' is newly published data in Journal of Clinical Oncology. "Germline mutations in BRCA genes are associated with breast and ovarian cancer susceptibility. Because infertility is associated with breast and ovarian cancer risks, we hypothesized that the mutations in the BRCA gene may be associated with low response to fertility treatments," investigators in the United States report.

"We performed ovarian stimulation in 126 women with breast cancer by using letrozole and gonadotropins for the...

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