10. Q2 Breast Cancer in Pregnancy
What is the consensus regarding the effect of pregnancy on Breast Cancer?
Pregnancy itself does not appear to worsen the prognosis for women diagnosed in pregnancy.
However,as pregnancy-associated breast cancer occurs in a younger population who may have features that carry a higher risk of metastases such as high-grade tumours and estrogen receptor negative tumours, these younger women may be expected to have an inferior prognosis.
Women are generally advised to wait for at least 2 years after treatment for breast cancer before conception because of the risk of early relapse.
Pregnancy itself does not appear to worsen the prognosis for women diagnosed in pregnancy.
However,as pregnancy-associated breast cancer occurs in a younger population who may have features that carry a higher risk of metastases such as high-grade tumours and estrogen receptor negative tumours, these younger women may be expected to have an inferior prognosis.
Women are generally advised to wait for at least 2 years after treatment for breast cancer before conception because of the risk of early relapse.