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Young women with breast cancer often desire children after treatment. To quantitate the effects of pregnancy on survival, investigators in Australia identified 123 women (age, 15–44) who were diagnosed with pathologically confirmed breast cancer from 1982 through 2000 and who had a subsequent pregnancy before 2004.
At diagnosis, most women had stage I or II disease (32% and 53%, respectively). Overall, the 123 women had 175 pregnancies; 54% had live births, 34% had elective abortions, and 12% had spontaneous abortions. Half of the women conceived within 2 years of their diagnosis, and their pregnancy termination rate was higher than the rate in women who conceived later. Women who conceived had improved survival compared with women with a di…