Is pregnancy after breast cancer safe?

Breast Journal

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 404-411

  Kranick, Julie A ^a   Schaefer, Catherine ^b   Rowell, Sarah ^b   Desai, Manisha ^a,c   Petrek, Jeanne A ^d   Hiatt, Robert A ^e   Senie, Ruby T ^a,c  

^a Columbia University ^*  (United States)

^b DIVISION OF RESEARCH   (United States)

^c Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center ^*  (United States)

^d MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Breast cancer; Long term prognosis; Subsequent pregnancy

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER RISK; CANCER SURVIVAL; CONCEPTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FERTILITY; HAZARD RATIO; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; PREGNANCY; PROGNOSIS;

ADULT; BREAST NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, NEOPLASTIC; PROGNOSIS; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS;

EID: 77956851302     PISSN: 1075122X     EISSN: 15244741     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1524-4741.2010.00939.x     Document Type: Article

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