Breast carcinoma in pregnant women

Lavinia P. Middleton, Mitual Amin, Karin Gwyn, Richard L. Theriault, Ayşegül A. Şahin

Cancer · 2003 · 292 citations · 24 references

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Abstract

Pregnant women with breast carcinomas generally present with advanced-stage disease and the tumors have poor histologic and prognostic features. The findings from the follow-up indicated that these tumors do not follow a very aggressive clinical course as was proposed in earlier reports. Breast carcinomas occurring during pregnancy share many histologic and prognostic similarities with breast carcinoma occurring in other young women.

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