THE EFFECT OF PREGNANCY ON THE PROGNOSIS OF CARCINOMA OF THE BREAST FOLLOWING RADICAL-MASTECTOMY

  • 1 January 1981
    • journal article
    • research article
    • Vol. 153  (5) , 723-725
Abstract
From 1940 to 1970, 41 patients treated for primary operable carcinoma of the breast had subsequent pregnancies. Of 27 patients with axillary nodes negative for tumor, 9 had 1 trimester abortions and 14 had pregnancies occur 12 yr following mastectomy. Fourteen patients had axillary nodes positive for tumor, 7 having 1st trimester abortions and 8 pregnancies having occurred within 2 yr of mastectomy. No detrimental effect of subsequent pregnancy could be demonstrated, even among patients with positive axillary nodes or among those whose pregnancies occurred < 2 yr following mastectomy. Abortion could not be demonstrated to improve the survival rate. Pregnancy need not be avoided or terminated among those patients who are apparently free of a recurrence after undergoing treatment for carcinoma of the breast.

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