Canada Pharmacy Online Links Cancer Survivors with Birth Defects

Jan 3
09:12

2012

Remcel Mae P. Canete

Remcel Mae P. Canete

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Kids born from parents who endured childhood cancer are less likely to experience birth defects and thus lesser possibility of taking Canadian prescriptions.

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Kids born from parents who endured childhood cancer are less likely to experience birth defects and thus lesser possibility of taking Canadian prescriptions .

 

"We found that DNA damage from radiation and chemotherapy with alkylating agents are not associated with the risk of genetic birth defects in the offspring," said lead researcher Lisa Signorello,Canada Pharmacy Online Links Cancer Survivors with Birth Defects Articles an associate professor of medicine at Vanderbilt University in Nashville.

 

"This is really reassuring," she said. "This is one less thing for childhood cancer survivors to worry about. The prevalence of birth defects among the children of cancer survivors is similar to that of the general population," added Signorello, who's also a senior epidemiologist at the International Epidemiology Institute in Rockville, Md.

 

Signorello noted that "childhood cancer survivors have a higher rate of infertility and a greater risk of having miscarriage, preterm birth and low birth-weight infants."  Parents facing these problems are stressed out tremendously that pimples easily pop on their face - to buy Aczone is the best remedy for this matter.

 

"Although cancer treatment can cause DNA damage to the sperm and eggs, it may be that these damages get filtered out," she said.

 

"This is very encouraging, because there has been a worry," said Dr. Michael Katz, senior vice president for research and global programs at the March of Dimes.

 

Dr. Jeanette Falck Winther, a senior researcher at the Institute of Cancer Epidemiology at the Danish Cancer Society in Copenhagen and co-author of an accompanying journal editorial, said "the study findings should address some of the reproductive concerns of childhood cancer survivors, geneticists and pediatric oncologists."

 

"Our hope is that this reassuring information will be used by the physicians in counseling childhood cancer survivors who desire and are able to have children," she said.  Moreover, Canadian drugstores will always be ready to serve patients with maintenance needs.