A new study has revealed that children conceived through frozen embryo transfer have double the rate of cancer.
The study, published in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), followed every child born in Denmark over a 20-year span. About 37,000 of the 1,086,136 children were conceived through Assisted Reproductive Technologies (ART).
As reported by the children’s advocacy group Them Before Us “children conceived without assisted reproduction developed cancer at 18.3 per 100,000 per year.” In comparison, children who had been extracted from frozen storage had cancer rates of 41.1 per 100,000. Leukemia rates were also more than double.
According to the Canadian Assisted Reproductive Technologies Register, 84 percent of In Vitro Fertilization (IVF) transfers in the Canada use frozen embryos. It also reported that over 30,000 patients received IVF treatment in Canada in 2024 and that there were 10,532 pregnancies and 8,870 live births. We know that every child, no matter how small, must be treated with the respect and care that befits an image-bearer of God.
For more, tune in to Real Talk’s podcast for the Nov. 1st, 2026 special episode on IVF, with guest Josh Wood, from Them Before Us.