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As outcomes for children, teens, and young adults with cancer continue to improve, more pregnancies now occur in women who have survived cancer. In a retrospective cohort analysis based on Scottish cancer registry data and linked hospital-based maternity data from 1980 through 2005, investigators compared first pregnancy outcomes in 917 cancer survivors (mean age at diagnosis, 24) and 5496 women without cancer. The median time from cancer diagnosis to delivery was 4 years and 2 months. Mean age at delivery was 29 in cancer survivors and 26 in women without cancer.
Rates of miscarriage were similar in the two groups, but cancer survivors were more likely to have ectopic pregnancies (2.9%) than were the other women (0.9%; P<0.001). Median birt…