JAMA Netw Open: After 6 years of tracking more than 40,000 IVF cases, we came to this conclusion...

The number of babies born through assisted reproductive technology (ART) has increased worldwide

The current evidence on the association between ART conception and childhood cancer remains open to debate

This population-based, province-wide cohort study included registration data from 2,308,016 eligible parent-child triads in Taiwan from January 1, 2004 to December 31, 2017

The results showed that the average ages of fathers and mothers were 33.

The mean (SD) ages of fathers and mothers were 33.

Mediation analysis showed that the increased cancer risk associated with ART conception was not mediated by preterm birth or low birth weight

In this cohort study, children conceived through ART had a higher risk of childhood cancer than children conceived naturally, and higher than those born to parents diagnosed with infertility who did not use ART

Original source:

Weng S, Huang Y, Huang Y, Li Y, Chien L.