title: Pregnancy after breast cancer. A comprehensive review.
abstract: Pregnancy after breast cancer treatment has become an important issue since many young breast cancer patients have not completed their family. Generally, these patients should not be discouraged to become pregnant when they want to, since published data suggest no adverse effect of pregnancy on survival. As fertility may be impaired by chemotherapy, different fertility preserving strategies have been developed. Births seem to sustain no adverse effects, while breastfeeding appears to be feasible and safe.
authors.affiliation: Department of Surgical Oncology, Medical School of Crete University Hospital, Herakleion, Greece. debree@edu.uoc.gr
authors.forename: Eelco
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: de Bree
authors.forename: Antonios
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Makrigiannakis
authors.forename: John
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Askoxylakis
authors.forename: John
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Melissas
authors.forename: Dimitris D
authors.initials: DD
authors.lastname: Tsiftsis
mesh_terms: D001943:Breast Neoplasms / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000401:mortality; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007774:Lactation / Q000502:physiology; D011247:Pregnancy / Q000502:physiology*; D011256:Pregnancy Outcome