The survival rate of children suffering from cancer in the last decade has increased dramatically. Scientists attribute this remarkable fact that in the same period jumped significantly and the number of women who have early menopause . The so-called premature ovarian failure or early menopause is the loss of ovarian function in women who have not reached 40 years of age. This condition is fixed at one woman out of every hundred.
However, according to statistics published in the prestigious scientific journal The Obstetrician & Gynaecologist, suffering from factor early menopause women recently increasing. As scientists believe, it is directly related to the fact that an increasing number of children was completely cured of cancer.
The fact that one of the main causes of the early menopause is chemotherapy and radiation in childhood. These painful, but necessary in the treatment of cancer treatments may cause menopause is 10-20 years earlier than the normal term.
Studies show that 8% of the girls who survived cancer, then victims early menopause . And if a child during the treatment they received no chemotherapy alone, but also alkylating agents (a group of drugs used in oncology), the risk of early menopause increases by 30-40%. After an early menopause in women is not ovulating. But ladies can still theoretically be mothers with IVF.
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