Cancer Survivors Shouldn’t Have Kids
Roger Highfield writes in the Telegraph (U.K.) newspaper that it may be dangerous for cancer survivors to have children, since the genetic changes caused by radiation and chemotherapy can be passed down to their children and grandchildren, putting them at greater risk of developing cancer.
Researcher Dr. Yuri Dubrova has discovered that this happens with mice, and he now wants to look at statistics to see if there’s evidence that this happens with human beings. “I am uncomfortable with extrapolating our results,” he says. “?The mouse data are not enough to change our perception. We are desperate for human data.”
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