Young cancer survivors ‘frequently over- or underestimate infertility risk’
Both gonadotoxicity of treatments and absent or irregular menses were tied with higher infertility risk perception.
Survivors of adolescent and young adult cancer have higher rates of perceiving increased infertility risk but frequently overestimate or underestimate their risk, according to a study in JAMA Network Open.
US researchers at the University of California San Diego in La Jolla conducted a retrospective cohort study of female young adult cancer survivors (aged 15-39) to examine whether estimated treatment gonadotoxicity and post-treatment menstrual pattern are associated with higher infertility risk perception.
