Admittedly, being diagnosed with cancer is heart-breaking news for anyone, but most especially for women. Things can become even more complicated when a woman is pregnant, because not only is her own life at risk, her
unborn child's life is also placed in peril.
Studies tend to indicate that the risk of
breast cancer increases during pregnancy because the breasts undergo several changes such as expansion in size as well as retention of fluid. Lumps and other breast abnormalities may develop during this particular stage of the pregnancy. Many of these abnormalites are benign, meaning they are not necessarily cancerous, although doctors suggest that a pregnant woman submit herself to clinical breast examination, ideally before the physiological changes in her breasts begin.
This is not to say that a woman should not get pregnant though. One of the greatest joys in a woman's life is the ability to bear and eventually give birth to a new life. The risk of developing breast cancer during and even after pregnancy is not enough reason to stop entertaining thoughts of having a child. The risk may be there, but so is the fact that cancer may not develop at all, aside from the other reality that many advances in modern science today have allowed health professionals to successfully treat and control the incidence of breast cancer.
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