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Monday, January 30, 2012

Cancer drugs affect mouse genomes for generations (mice offspring) : Nature News & Comment



"....Furthermore, children who are treated for cancer will not have children of their own for years or decades afterwards. Mice only live about two years, and the ones in Dubrova’s study reproduced a few months after their exposure to the drugs. “I would be very careful in interpreting this data,” Dubrova says."

".....But he (Joe O’Sullivan) also cautions against reading too much into the implications for humans who receive chemotherapy treatments, noting that that the few who do go on to have children are generally asked to wait at least a year after treatment before doing so. “It’s something we’ve generally advised for a long time,” he says, “even though we haven’t had much evidence to back it up.”"