As very few women have been followed up for more than 10 years, longer-term studies of cancer incidence after infertility and IVF are necessary. The researchers, in conjunction with the Fertility Society of Australia and IVF clinics around Australia, are conducting another similar study of 30,000 women who have been in IVF programs. The study of a larger group of women will provide further information on the risk of ovarian and uterine cancer. Findings from this study are expected in late 1998. The lifetime risk of breast cancer is 1 in 14 women.
Breast cancer is the most common cancer in Australian women.
The graph shows how the incidence of these cancers increases with age, shown as the number of new diagnoses of cancer per 100,000 women per year. Long-term effects on women from assisted conception. We would like to thank Dr Alison Venn for allowing us to reproduce this article on our webpage.