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Study Finds Poor Outcomes for Pregnancy-Associated Breast Cancer
Poor Outcomes for Pregnancy-Associated Breast Cancer
B. Jancin
20080003
2008 Jan 3
Elsevier Global Medical News
Study Finds Poor Outcomes for Pregnancy-Associated Breast Cancer
Elsevier Global Medical News. 2008 Jan 3, B. Jancin
SAN ANTONIO (EGMN) - Survival outcomes in women with pregnancy-associated breast cancer were significantly worse than in nonpregnant controls matched for age and tumor stage in a relatively large single-center study.This finding is at odds with most prior series, which have found no difference in 5-year survival depending upon whether a breast cancer patient was pregnant, study investigator Dr. Rajesh Sehgal said at the San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium."We don't know why our results were different....