Breast Cancer (Prognosis)

Study Indicates Recent Pregnancy Worsens Disease Prognosis

Published in Women's Health Weekly, October 27th, 1997

Women diagnosed with breast cancer fewer than two years after giving birth have a poor survival rate, according to a recent study.

Doctors at the Danish Epidemiology Sciences Centre in Copenhagen who studied 5,652 women up to 45-years-old with breast cancer, found that a recent birth increased the risk of dying by about 60 percent.

"Women whose breast cancer was diagnosed less than two years after they gave birth had a crude five-year survival of 58.7 percent and a 10-year-survival of 46.1 percent, compared with 78.4 percent and 66 percent who had their last delivery more than two years before their cancer diagnosis," Niels Kroman said in the October...

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