Worldwide, the infertility rate is increasing, affecting 1 in 6 adults.
Multiple studies show rising infertility is driven by environmental toxic exposures, declining sperm counts, and delayed childbearing.
To compensate, couples turn to artificial conception methods, taking advantage of hormonal altering medications, artificial insemination, intrauterine insemination, and injectable hormones.
The medical community actively promotes In-Vitro fertilization (IVF) as a right in “protecting the family.”
No wonder, as of 2018, more than 8 million babies have been born through IVF.
But, is everyone healthy?
The Risks of Excess Hormones
Unfortunately, medical research suggests that excess estrogen contributes to the formation and activation of breast cancer.
Not only are there at least nine prospective studies on 663 postmenopausal women that link endogenous sex hormones to breast cancer.
But, going back to the 1980s, studies also show that fertility treatements are associated with an increased cancer risk in women who inject hormones for conception, including excess estrogen for follicular stimulation.
Although correlation does not imply causation, several celebrities (i.e., Shannen Doherty, Jacqueline Gold), are two who publicly revealed their use of IVF, and later died of breast cancer.
As infertility continues to rise, the medical narrative has reframed the risks of fertility treatments as “uncertain.” The attitude now is that there is “no significant breast-cancer risk association with fertility treatment.”
At the same time, the breast cancer research foundation suggests a 1 in 8 chance that a woman in the United States will develop breast cancer.
According to a 2009 study in the American Journal of Epidemiology, women who use hormones to induce ovulation have increased risks of cancer. The authors also stated:
Increased risks were also observed for malignant melanoma and non-Hodgkin lymphoma. These associations appeared stronger among women who waited more than 1 year to conceive.
When it comes to preventing a family via contraception, a 2025 JAMA Swedish study showed that injectable hormone contraception also increased breast cancer risk among adolescent and pre-menopausal women.
Similarly, a March 2024 BMJ study found that the use of injectable progesterones, as widely used contraceptives, increased the risk of intracranial meningioma.
Childhood Cancer
Until now, few studies asked if children conceived through assisted reproductive technology (i.e., ART) are at increased risk of childhood cancer.
Note: ART is classified as in vitro fertilization (IVF), intracytoplasmic sperm injection, or frozen embryo transfer.
In a recent 2026 JAMA Denmark study, Danish researchers followed every child born in Denmark from 1996 to 2012 for up to 20 years. That’s 1,086,136 children, about 37,000 of them conceived through assisted reproduction. Denmark keeps national registries of births, fertility treatment, and cancer diagnoses, which is what makes a study of this size possible.
Danish authors found:
children conceived using ART had higher cancer incidence than those not conceived using ART, with the highest incidence observed after frozen embryo transfer and intracytoplasmic sperm injection.
In the U.S., 84% of IVF transfers use frozen embryos. Strangely, the Denmark study concluded:
Childhood cancer risk after assisted reproductive technology (ART) remains uncertain, particularly by procedure and cancer type.
Nonetheless, the fact remains that in a study that followed a million Danish children for 20 years, the childhood cancer rate doubled.
Frozen embryo transfer was associated with leukemia, lymphoma, and soft tissue sarcoma. IVF also has a higher risk of developing hepatic tumors.
These outcomes mirror a 2022 study in the journal Cancer Medicine that showed associations between ART use and hepatoblastoma and osteosarcoma.
The only method that showed no increased risk was a fresh embryo, never frozen, created by placing eggs and sperm together in a dish—a version of IVF that has become exceedingly rare.
While the American Board of Family Medicine promotes Protecting the Right of the Family through IVF, who is protecting the health of the family?
According to this 2022 study, in Frontiers of Reproductive Health, not only do women who conceive using ART experience pregnancy-related complications, including early miscarriages, but it is also known that the risk to the IVF-born child is greater, related to prematurity and growth restrictions based on epigenetic changes to DNA.
it may be expected that there is a greater risk to the longer-term health of the child who is born from ART.
From this 2026 article:
Children born following IVF treatment are almost twice as likely to suffer ill-health…Limited long-term follow-up data suggest an increase in the incidence of raised blood pressure, elevated fasting glucose, increase in total body fat composition, advancement of bone age, and potentially subclinical thyroid disorder in the IVF group.
Transgender Treatments & Cancer
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“gender dysphoria,” a psychiatric diagnosis that refers to the psychological distress that results from an incongruence between one’s sex assigned at birth and one’s gender identity.
The gender narrative admits “cisgender men” cannot become pregnant because they lack a uterus and ovaries, but “transgender men,” and “some nonbinary people” assigned female at birth with intact reproductive organs, can conceive and carry a pregnancy….. as long as they stop hormone blockers.
By using gender-affirming hormone therapy (GAHT), do we expect to see a rise in hormone-induced cancers?
Yes.
According to the 2024 BMJ Journal Oncology, using GAHT elevates cancer risk. Studies from 2005 through 2026 show colorectal cancer in premenopausal women. Other malignancies include breast and prostate cancer (from androgen deprivation), and meningiomas, most of which are said to be hormonally-driven.
The law is also changing. In Wisconsin, to ensure that same‑sex couples receive the same legal rights and responsibilities as heterosexual couples under IVF, an artificial insemination law (Stat § 891.40 (2025) was created to replace “mother” with “inseminated person,” and “paternity” with “parentage.”
When it comes to rights and responsibilities, what happened to the term, “adult?”
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