Abstract

Background Infertility is the major problem in the world and it occur due to many reasons one of in certain conditions is treatment of cancer Justification There is no published data concerning the association between cancer and infertility Objectives To know the prevalence of cancer among selected group of Sudanese ladies with fertility disorders Method Descriptive cross sectional study from March May 2016 at Banoon IVF center Khartoum Sudan 100 Sudanese women with fertility disorders were involved in the study Result The prevalence of cancer among the selected group was 10 6 was breast cancer 4 other types of cancer Discussion The prevalence of cancer among the study group was high and that may give us a link between cancer and infertility with strength of this link was increased among the participants with breast cancer then our study agree with the previous study done by Kutluk Oktay et al that showed association between breast cancer and infertility Conclusion Further studies should be done involving large sample size from different races