At World's Largest Cancer Meeting, Doctors Discuss Safety Of Pregnancy After Breast Cancer - News Summed Up

At World's Largest Cancer Meeting, Doctors Discuss Safety Of Pregnancy After Breast Cancer


Pexels.comFor young women with a history of breast cancer, there’s at least one thing about which they might stop worrying. He’s a breast cancer specialist and researcher at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. This is more than just another abstract.”A quarter of women with breast cancer are of child-bearing age. Historically, many doctors advised women not to get pregnant after early-stage breast cancer and, if they became pregnant, to terminate the pregnancy. They feared that hormones of pregnancy could stimulate residual breast cancer cells, leading to recurrence.


Source: Forbes June 12, 2017 15:30 UTC



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