Giving Life After Breast Cancer
Having a baby after surviving breast cancer, it is a terribly sweet revenge on life history now possible and more experienced.
Because breast cancer is often diagnosed in women in their thirties or early forties, it is now less common to see these become pregnant after treatment ended. Life goes on ... According to data, 10% of survivors of breast cancer have one or two babies later.
The Association of After Breast Cancer, in a study entitled giving life after breast cancer, has established that a few years ago, setting in motion a child after having a breast cancer was considered particularly risky, but today some women dare to try their luck in receiving appropriate monitoring. Exciting news that can put a balm on the heart of women with breast cancer, but who also want to become a mother one day. This project can probably allow them to focus on a goal real and incredible power - have a baby - and go through all the treatments with new force. Basically, it is twice the target life!
This comprehensive study, one of the first on this phenomenon, brought together people who had an average of 40 years, who have had their breast cancer at age 30 and became pregnant on average three and a half years after their recovery.
Treatment and fertility
The fertility of the woman could be disrupted first by his age. The amount of eggs decreases as woman ages. Sense suggests waiting for two to three years after the end of treatment (which also corresponds to the period more conducive to relapse), it is possible that the woman pushes her dream of starting a family.
Furthermore, the type and dose of chemotherapy will have an impact on female fertility. Some cause a temporary cessation of menstruation while others accelerate menopause. As for radiation, it would not affect fertility while hormone is indicated against. In short, before a diagnosis of breast cancer, a woman should be able to discuss the treatment options, especially if it is considering a possible pregnancy thereafter.
Living with the fear of recurrence
It remains a downside ... Women, who have experienced a pregnancy after breast cancer experience a certain duality. First immense joy but also fear of the future and recurrence. This is not the pregnancy itself scares them, but the prospect dark cannot be there to be returned to the child's school and all its birthdays, etc..... Recurrence is a risk. However, having a baby or not does not change the statistics. Indeed, 20% of women interviewed in the study reported having had a recurrence, which corresponds to the rate generally observed for all women. This prompted one of the doctors attached to the study that women who become pregnant after breast cancer did not take an additional risk. We are not immune to a recurrence, and after that it is very clever to tell if this is due to pregnancy, or if the natural history of the disease.
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