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Cancer and Pregnancy pp 57–67Cite as

Subsequent Pregnancy After Breast Cancer

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Part of the book series: Recent Results in Cancer Research ((RECENTCANCER,volume 178))

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Approximately 213,000 new cases of breast cancer were diagnosed in the US during 2006. Of these, 25% and 10% occurred in women younger than 50 and 40 years, respectively (Howe et al. 2006). As women are delaying childbearing for personal reasons, including cultural, educational, and professional reasons (Ventura 1989), there has been an increasing number of patients in whom breast cancer occurs before the completion of their reproductive project.

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    Fedro Peccatori, Saverio Cinieri & Laura Orlando

  2. Pediatrician, IBCLC, Via Giuseppe Sapeto 2, 20123, Milan, Italy

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Peccatori, F., Cinieri, S., Orlando, L., Bellettini, G. (2008). Subsequent Pregnancy After Breast Cancer. In: Cancer and Pregnancy. Recent Results in Cancer Research, vol 178. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-71274-9_6

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