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Article: New role for tamoxifen as fertility drug for patients?(tamoxifen stimulates embryo production)
- Article from:
- Women's Health Weekly
- Article date:
- January 23, 2003
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2003 JAN 23 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- U.S. fertility experts have discovered a potential new role for the wonder drug tamoxifen - helping breast cancer patients to have babies by IVF.
Researchers from New York's Cornell University report the first IVF pregnancy to result from the use of tamoxifen as an ovarian stimulant.
In a study of 12 breast cancer survivors they found that stimulating the ovaries with a short, carefully timed course of tamoxifen boosted the number of eggs they could retrieve. Every patient had one or more embryos either for freezing for later attempts at pregnancy, or for immediate transfer. One patient who had two fresh ...