[Breast cancer and pregnancy. Review of the literature].
BACKGROUND
The pregnancy-associated breast cancer seems to have become increasingly common with a high frequency of advanced breast cancer with axillary node metastases and so associated with poor prognosis.


METHODS
This review examines the diagnosis, prognosis, and management of cancer during pregnancy; both in terms of the cancer's effect on the pregnancy, and the pregnancy's effect on the cancer.


RESULTS
Diagnostic procedures (breast sonography) and excisional biopsies are necessary to reduce the delay of several months or more after discovery of a mass and before treatment. No histological difference, between patients with pregnancy-associated breast cancer and patients with non-pregnancy-associated breast cancer, was diagnosed.


CONCLUSIONS
The treatment is linked to the effects of adjuvant therapy on the fetus.
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D000328:Adult; D000970:Antineoplastic Agents / Q000009:adverse effects / Q000627:therapeutic use; D001706:Biopsy; D001943:Breast Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000473:pathology / Q000628:therapy; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008207:Lymphatic Metastasis; D008408:Mastectomy; D011247:Pregnancy; D011252:Pregnancy Complications, Neoplastic; D011379:Prognosis; D011878:Radiotherapy / Q000009:adverse effects; D014463:Ultrasonography
D000970:Antineoplastic Agents
Mise au point: cancer du sein et grossesse. Revue de la littérature.