FERTILITY AND PREGNANCY AFTER BREAST CANCER TREATMENT: EVIDENCE-BASED ANSWERS TO THE MAIN QUESTIONS THAT PATIENTS ASK

An increasing trend toward delayed childbearing for professional, personal, and so - cioeconomic reasons has been recently described. Accordingly, breast cancer incidence in women who have not yet completed their family is growing, with a steady mortality reduction due to im - proved diagnostic and therapeutic procedures. Breast cancer survivors have many concerns about conceiving after breast cancer, but recent lit - erature is globally reassuring and the historical contraindication to pregnancy in patients with pre - vious history of breast cancer should be dropped out. Miscarriages and pregnancy complications are not increased in breast cancer survivors and breastfeeding is safe and feasible. All patients with newly diagnosed breast cancer should receive information about fertility and pregnancy issues, but not all physicians are ready to face this task. Here we provide evidence-based answers to the main questions breast cancer patients may ask.

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