Were they healthy fertile women or were they patients seeking help with an infertility problem?
Previous episodes of infertility and/or gross pathology may have occurred.
First, a description of the genes that cause some cases of infertility provides the basis for diagnosis at the molecular level.
How this produces infertility is of considerable interest.
Other studies of the relationship between infertility and cancer (12;14;27;28;62) have also produced inconsistent findings.
It has not decreased despite the increasing proportion of women undergoing procedures as the result of male factor infertility (42).
Critics of treatment for inhibiting incurable disease and infertility.
Clearly such women are unlikely to publicise their grief about infertility, miscarriages and ill-health.