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Malignancies affecting pregnant women are uncommon, but the associated risks necessitate careful counseling. These risks are difficult to quantify in fetuses and neonates — and attributing them to the cancer itself versus its treatment is harder still. To address these questions, Swedish investigators conducted a population-based exploration that covered a 40-year time span. Nearly 4 million women were included; 0.02% received diagnoses of malignancy during pregnancy, and 0.07% received diagnoses within the first year after pregnancy.
The most common malignancies were melanoma, cervical cancer, and breast cancer. Among women with cancer diagnoses during pregnancy, stillbirths (8.2 per 1000 births) were more likely than in women without malig…