Tech companies are offering women an opportunity to freeze their eggs so that they can defer pregnancy into their forties and fifties.\u00a0 Megan McArdle comments that women have less energy for child rearing as they age.<\/p>\n
But there is another far more important question.\u00a0 While breast cancer is manageable in many occurences today, women who have had hormone therapy to enable them to become pregnant as they enter menopause seem to die more often from the disease.<\/p>\n
Of the 185 studies on cancer and hormone therapy in the US government’s cllnical trial program, no study asks the question:\u00a0 what is the occurence of untreatable cancer in women who have had fertility treatments?\u00a0 In 285 studies on ‘death from breast cancer” none ask this question.<\/p>\n
It is said that doctors treating women for infertility tell their patients that there is a risk and that women either choose to take the risk, or do not hear information which might make them question a pregnancy.\u00a0 This may well be so.\u00a0 But Elizabeth Edwards case is a warning.\u00a0 Anecdotally, many widowers whose wives have died of breat cancer afer underoing fertility treatments have come to the same conclusion.<\/p>\n
Are tech companies encouraging women to take uncessary risks by freezing eggs?<\/p>\n
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Tech companies are offering women an opportunity to freeze their eggs so that they can defer pregnancy into their forties and fifties.\u00a0 Megan McArdle comments that women have less energy for child rearing as they age. But there is another … Continue reading