Journal of Thoracic Disease: Challenges in Managing Breast Cancer During Pregnancy
The American Cancer Society: Pregnancy and Breast Cancer
Having breast cancer during pregnancy is very rare. But more and more women are choosing to have children later in life, and the risk of breast cancer goes up as women get older. Because of this, doctors expect there will be more cases of breast cancer during pregnancy in the future.
Breast cancer is found in about 1 in every 3,000 pregnant women. Breast cancer is the most common type of cancer found during pregnancy, while breastfeeding, or within the first year of delivery. You may hear this called gestational breast cancer or pregnancy-associated breast cancer (PABC). The special concerns of breast cancer during pregnancy are reviewed here. Read the full article from the American Cancer Society.
Published Research on Taxane Chemotherapy Use During Pregnancy
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Open in new tab Cancer Can Be Treated During Pregnancy
Article date: May 31, 2012
By Stacy Simon
When a pregnant woman is diagnosed with cancer, her treatment decisions are complicated by concern about how treatment may affect the baby’s health. Ideally, she can delay treatment until the baby is born, but sometimes a delay can allow the cancer to progress and make it harder to treat. The best time for beginning treatment to balance the baby’s and mother’s health needs isn’t always clear.
A series of articles published recently in The Lancet and The Lancet Oncology may make some of those treatment decisions easier. Teams of researchers from Belgium, France, and Israel found that many cases of cancer in pregnant women can be treated while the baby is carried to full term. Read the full story from the American Cancer Society.
With Child, With Cancer
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