Study suggests that pregnancy after early breast cancer treatment, does not mean cancer will come back:
"Despite fears to the contrary, women who get pregnant after receiving radiation treatment for early breast cancer are not at increased risk of having their cancer come back, a new study suggests.
"In fact, the risk of recurrence was lower among women who became pregnant," says researcher Ahlam Aljizani, MD, of the Ottawa Regional Cancer Center in Canada.
In the study of 201 women with early breast cancer, 28.2% of the 39 patients who later became pregnant had a recurrence vs. 55.6% of those who did not get pregnant.
Pregnancy and Risk of Breast Cancer Recurrence
Although several studies have suggested a neutral or even beneficial effect of pregnancy on recurrence rates in women who receive radiation, there have been fears that the increased levels of hormones during pregnancy might stimulate tumor growth, Phillip Devlin, MD, a radiation oncologist at Harvard Medical School, tells WebMD."
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