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Article: Drug used to treat inferility linked to ovarian cancer. (Originated from Knight-Ridder Newspapers)
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- September 21, 1994
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Clomid, the widely-used drug that has allowed thousands of infertile American women to bear children, is linked to a higher risk for ovarian cancer, researchers at the University of Washington have reported.
Their study, in Thursday's New England Journal of Medicine, found that women who used the drug for 12 or more months faced 11 times the risk for ovarian cancers and borderline tumors than non-Clomid users. Ovarian cancer is very deadly because it is usually not detected until long after it has spread.
Infertility experts said the finding will likely raise concerns among millions of fertility patients, who have turned increasingly to Clomid and other hormonal ...