Tuesday, January 04, 2005
yet another link on superior survival rates with this EXTREMELY interesting quote: "Ezzat et al8 reported results from another study that included comparison with a control group and also found a nonsignificant trend in favor of the pregnant patients. Their study was limited to patients whose breast cancer was diagnosed during pregnancy. It might be expected that reduction in risk of death associated with any protective effect of pregnancy would be less marked in these patients, because the tumor had by definition been diagnosed despite pregnancy, and in most cases would have progressed during pregnancy. Despite this, a slight favorable trend for patients diagnosed during pregnancy was found."
the abstract for that last reference doesn't mention subsequent pregnancy, and it was a very small group, but I might need to come back to it later.
the abstract for that last reference doesn't mention subsequent pregnancy, and it was a very small group, but I might need to come back to it later.
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