Cautious Optimism for Offspring of Women with Cancer during Pregnancy

Fortunately, cancer rarely complicates pregnancy, with a cancer diagnosis in approximately 1 of 1000 pregnant women. Thus, for busy obstetrical care providers who deliver 125 babies per year, the odds that they will have a patient with cancer are about one in every 8 years. Given the variety of cancers that are diagnosed during pregnancy, it is unlikely that most obstetrical care providers will see more than two or three cases of any given type of maternal cancer in their careers. For similar reasons, most oncologists have limited familiarity with cancers that occur during pregnancy, as do most pediatricians who treat the babies of these women. Thus, all specialty care providers find themselves in unfamiliar territory when cancer is diagnosed in a pregnant woman..

Medienart:

Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2015

Erschienen:

2015

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:373

Enthalten in:

The New England journal of medicine - 373(2015), 19, Seite 1875

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Longo, Dan L [VerfasserIn]
Greene, Michael F [Sonstige Person]

Links:

www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
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44.60

44.00

Themen:

Antineoplastic Agents - adverse effects
Babies
Cancer
Care and treatment
Chemotherapy
Clinical outcomes
Diagnosis
Health aspects
Heart - physiology
Infants (Newborn)
Maternal & child health
Pregnancy
Radiotherapy - adverse effects
Risk factors

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

OLC1969956178