Article: Pregnancy Okay after Breast Cancer Treatment; Www.breastlink.org -- The Web Site That Presents the Science behind Breast Cancer News in English and Spanish.

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LOS ANGELES--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 9, 2004

Breast cancer for a young woman who wants to have children is one of the most agonizing situations in oncology. But there's hope. A new study by researchers at the M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, found that women who became pregnant following breast cancer treatment did not have an increased risk of recurrence or a higher death rate than breast cancer survivors who did not become pregnant. "This study is important as it gives us some further reassurance that if a patient wants to become pregnant and has talked about it with her oncologist to assess her individual ...

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