Pregnant women to be treated cancer
Cancer in pregnant women can usually be treated without terminating the pregnancy and with little impact on infants carried to full term, “medpagetoday” reported.
Children exposed to chemotherapy in utero showed no delay in growth or increase in problems with their central nervous system, heart, or hearing compared with the general population, Frederic Amant, PhD, of University Hospitals Leuven in Leuven, Belgium, and colleagues reported online in The Lancet Oncology.
Pregnancy should be preserved whenever possible with breast and gynecologic cancers, although hematologic cancers can be a problem in the first trimester, separate reviews in the Feb.