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[Pregnancy after breast cancer: A literature review]
Alive Trefoux-Bourdet1, Agnès Reynaud-Bougnoux2, Gilles Body3
1CHRU de Tours, hôpital Bretonneau, département de gynécologie, 2, boulevard Tonnellé, 37044 Tours, France; Faculté de médecine François-Rabelais, 10, boulevard Tonnellé, 37044 Tours, France.
Pregnancies after breast cancer are still relatively rare observations. It was considered for a long time that a woman previously treated for a breast cancer could favour recurrence by becoming pregnant because of the hormonal impregnation. However, the improvement of the breast cancer treatments thanks to the improvement of the knowledge on this disease, allowed these women to envisage pregnancies after this disease. The current recommendations do not dissuade the pregnancy in case of complete cure. However, a pregnancy in this particular context arouses a number of questions such as the delay between the cancer and the pregnancy, the progress of these pregnancies, the oncologic and obstetric follow-up, the breast-feeding and its impact on breast cancer prognosis. The aim of this work is to answer these questions through a literature review.
Pregnancies after breast cancer are still relatively rare observations. It was considered for a long time that a woman previously treated for a breast cancer could favour recurrence by becoming pregnant because of the hormonal impregnation. However, the improvement of the breast cancer treatments thanks to the improvement of the knowledge on this disease, allowed these women to envisage pregnancies after this disease. The current recommendations do not dissuade the pregnancy in case of complete cure. However, a pregnancy in this particular context arouses a number of questions such as the delay between the cancer and the pregnancy, the progress of these pregnancies, the oncologic and obstetric follow-up, the breast-feeding and its impact on breast cancer prognosis. The aim of this work is to answer these questions through a literature review.
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