India, Oct. 3 -- This is a question many women ask when considering fertility treatment, and understandably so. With increasing awareness around breast cancer and more women opting for assisted reproductive techniques, it's natural to wonder whether hormonal medications used in infertility treatment could increase long-term cancer risk. The reassuring answer, based on current medical evidence, is that infertility treatments do not significantly increase the risk of breast cancer for most women.

Infertility treatments often involve medications that stimulate the ovaries, leading to higher levels of hormones like estrogen. "Treatments such as ovulation induction and in vitro fertilization (IVF) use drugs like clomiphene citrate or gonadotr...