Pregnancy subsequent to mastectomy for cancer of the breast.
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This article is published in Annals of Surgery.The article was published on 1970-03-01 and is currently open access. It has received 84 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Breast cancer & Mastectomy.read more
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Breast cancer in pregnancy: a literature review.
TL;DR: Physicians should perform a thorough breast examination at the first prenatal visit and maintain a high index of suspicion for cancer, as pregnancy-associated cancers tend to occur at a later stage and be estrogen receptor-negative.
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Cancer and pregnancy.
TL;DR: Cancer and Pregnancy: Bioethical and Legal Dilemmas and Epilogue Cancer and P pregnancy: a Reason for Hope.
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Survival of breast cancer patients after subsequent term pregnancy: “Healthy mother effect”
TL;DR: The interpretation of this result is a "healthy mother effect" (i.e., that only women who feel healthy give birth and those who are affected by the disease do not).
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Safety of pregnancy following breast cancer diagnosis: a meta-analysis of 14 studies.
Hatem A. Azim,Luigi Santoro,Nicholas Pavlidis,Shari Gelber,Niels Kroman,Hamdy A. Azim,Fedro A. Peccatori +6 more
TL;DR: This study confirms that pregnancy in women with history of breast cancer is safe and does not compromise their overall survival, and breast cancer survivors should not be denied the opportunity of future conception.
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Effect of Pregnancy on Overall Survival After the Diagnosis of Early-Stage Breast Cancer
Shari Gelber,Alan S. Coates,A. Goldhirsch,Monica Castiglione-Gertsch,Gianluigi Marini,Jurij Lindtner,David Z. Edelmann,Anne Gudgeon,V J Harvey,Richard D. Gelber +9 more
TL;DR: Subsequent pregnancy does not adversely affect the prognosis of early-stage breast cancer and the superior survival seen in this and other controlled series may merely reflect a healthy patient selection bias, but is also consistent with an antitumor effect of the pregnancy.