Tuesday, December 21, 2004
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center reported an 80% five-year survival rate for stage I and II (AJCC classification) patients after subsequent pregnancy. The study included 41 patients collected over 30 years. No detrimental effect of subsequent pregnancy was noted, even among patients with positive axillary lymph nodes or among those whose pregnancy occurred less than two years following mastectomy.
...this link is actually a very comprehensive review. it also includes this:
This was also the first study to report on estrogen receptor status, which was recorded in 70% of patients. The women with subsequent pregnancies had better survival rates if their cancer had positive estrogen receptors, which at first seems counterintuitive. However, this finding may be related to the fact that women with positive receptors have better survival rates and no micrometastatic disease.
...this link is actually a very comprehensive review. it also includes this:
This was also the first study to report on estrogen receptor status, which was recorded in 70% of patients. The women with subsequent pregnancies had better survival rates if their cancer had positive estrogen receptors, which at first seems counterintuitive. However, this finding may be related to the fact that women with positive receptors have better survival rates and no micrometastatic disease.
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