Prognostic Impact of Pregnancy in Korean Patients with Breast Cancer.

CONCLUSION: Postpartum breast cancer, but not breast cancer during pregnancy, was associated with advanced stage, younger age at diagnosis (<35 years), hormone receptor-negative disease, and poorer survival. Pregnancy after breast cancer did not compromise overall survival.
IMPLICATIONS FOR PRACTICE: Although pregnancy around the time of diagnosis of breast cancer is expected to become increasingly common with maternal age at first childbirth on the rise, data on the prognostic impact of pregnancy have been inconsistent and rare from Asian populations. In this investigation of a Korean patient cohort with breast cancer, pregnancy-associated breast cancer was associated with advanced stage, younger age at diagnosis (<35 years), hormone receptor-negative disease, and poorer survival. This adverse impact of pregnancy on the prognosis was apparent with postpartum breast cancer but not observed with breast cancer during pregnancy. Pregnancy after breast cancer did not compromise overall survival.
PMID: 31266853 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

Source: The Oncologist - July 1, 2019 Category: Cancer & Oncology Authors: Choi M, Han J, Yang BR, Jang MJ, Kim M, Kim TY, Im SA, Lee HB, Moon HG, Han W, Noh DY, Lee KH Tags: Oncologist Source Type: research