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Radiologic Diagnosis of Cancer in Pregnancy

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Cancer and pregnancy often result in two opposing emotional reactions in young women. One leads to dismay and horror, while the other usually to joyous elation. The patient is inevitably distraught and terrified, whilst the obstetrician and medical advisers are faced with a therapeutic dilemma involving diagnostic, obstetric, perinatal, surgical, physiological and moral issues. The situation is further complicated by the fact that pregnancy may limit adequate physical examination, and make clinical evaluation of the extent of malignant disease difficult. Yet an estimated 1 in 1000 women will be affected by cancer in some form while pregnant.1 The most common malignancies in women aged 15 to 34 years are of the breast, cervix and central nervous system, as well as leukemia, and non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma. In the 35 to 54 age group, cervical, lung, colorectal and ovarian cancer also become more common2 and it is likely that more cases of cancer during pregnancy will be seen as the trend for delaying pregnancy into later reproductive years continues.

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  1. Society for the Investigation of Early Pregnancy, 1697 Lark Lane, Cherry Hill, 08003-3157, NJ, USA

    Eytan R. Barnea MD, FACOG

  2. Department of Obstetric and Gynaecology, University College London Medical School, 86–96 Chenies Mews, WC1E 6HX, London, UK

    Eric Jauniaux MD, PhD

  3. Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Yale University School of Medicine, 333 Cedar Street, 06510, New Haven, CT, USA

    Peter E. Schwartz MD, FACOG

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Odunsi, K., Schwartz, P.E., Mari, G. (2001). Radiologic Diagnosis of Cancer in Pregnancy. In: Barnea, E.R., Jauniaux, E., Schwartz, P.E. (eds) Cancer and Pregnancy. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-0707-1_9

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