Studies find few risks to newborn offspring of parents who are childhood cancer survivors
Friday, October 2, 2009 - 08:28
in Health & Medicine
Whether they can have children is one of the major concerns for adult survivors of childhood and adolescent cancer because fertility can be compromised by cancer treatment. For cancer survivors who can have children, two new studies led by researchers at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Centre may help alleviate fears that their childhood disease will adversely impact their newborns...
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