ArticleObstetrics & gynecology science2016
Clinical characteristics and outcome of cancer diagnosed during pregnancy.
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- Efficacy and Safety of Platinum-Based Chemotherapy for Ovarian Cancer During Pregnancy: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.Oncology and therapy · 2022Review
- Lower gastrointestinal bleeding in pregnancy: Differential diagnosis, assessment and management.Obstetric medicine · 2021Review
- Ovarian Cancer and Pregnancy-A Current Problem in Perinatal Medicine: A Comprehensive Review.Cancers · 2020Review
- Maternal survival of patients with pregnancy-associated cancers in Taiwan - A national population-based study.Cancer medicine · 2020Article
- Postpartum Involution and Cancer: An Opportunity for Targeted Breast Cancer Prevention and Treatments?Cancer research · 2020Review
- Cancer During Pregnancy: How to Handle the Bioethical Dilemmas?-A Scoping Review With Paradigmatic Cases-Based Analysis.Frontiers in oncology · 2020Article
- Maternal Mortality: 10 Year Experience of a Tertiary Center in Turkey.Case reports in medicine · 2020Article
- A Japanese survey of malignant disease in pregnancy.International journal of clinical oncology · 2019Article
- A rare case of Meigs syndrome in pregnancy.The Pan African medical journal · 2019Article
- Recurrence of Ovarian Cancer with Placental Metastasis: A Case Report.Case reports in oncologyArticle
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Abstract
objectiveThe aim of this study is to describe the clinical characteristics and outcome of cancer diagnosed during pregnancy.
methodsThis is a retrospective cohort study of women who were diagnosed with cancer during pregnancy at a tertiary academic hospital between 1995 and 2013. Maternal characteristics, gestational age at diagnosis, and type, stage, symptoms and signs of cancer for each patient were retrieved from the medical records. The cancer treatment, pregnancy management and the subsequent perinatal and maternal outcomes for each cancer were assessed.
resultsA total of 87 women were diagnosed with cancer during pregnancy (172.6 cases per 100,000 deliveries). The most common cancer was breast cancer (n=20), followed by gastrointestinal (n=17), hematologic (n=13), thyroid (n=11), central nervous system (n=7), cervical (n=7), ovarian (n=5), lung (n=3), and other cancers (n=4). Eighteen (20.7%) patients terminated their pregnancies. In the 69 (79.3%) patients who maintained their pregnancies, one patient miscarried and 34 patients delivered preterm. Of the preterm babies, 24 (70.6%) were admitted to the neonatal intensive care unit and 3 (8.8%) of those expired. The maternal mortality rate was 31.0%, with highest rate seen with lung cancers (66.7%), followed by gastrointestinal (50.0%), central nervous system (50.0%), hematologic (30.8%), breast (25.0%), ovarian (20.0%) cervical (14.3%), and thyroid cancers (0%).
conclusionThe clinical characteristics and outcome of cancer during pregnancy were highly variable depending on the type of cancer. However, timely diagnosis and appropriate management of cancer during pregnancy may improve both maternal and neonatal outcome.
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