Survivors of breast cancer have an equal chance to conceive

Breast-Cancer-TestIt corroborates from a recent study that found breast cancer survivors can also have normal babies, evading the fears that breast cancer may pose higher risks with pregnancy leading them to death.

During the meta-analysis in14 trials, researchers from Belgium and Italy concluded that pregnancy is perfectly safe while suffering from breast cancer. It rather tends to increase the chances of survival.

Breast cancer, the most commonly occurring cancer in women at their childbearing years, has posed a health risk in case of women across the world. And this deadly disease always leaves women in a dilemma, whether to conceive or not.

The study, conducted by Dr. Hatem A Azim Jr., a Fellow at the Department of Medical Oncology at the Institute Jules Bordet in Brussels, Belgium and his teammates in Italy, scrutinized the findings from 14 trials that took place between 1970 and 2009 involving 1,417 pregnant women with a history of breast cancer and 18,059 women with a history of breast cancer who were not pregnant.

It was found that, the ones, who became pregnant despite having breast cancer, were at 42 percent less risk of death as compared to breast cancer patients, who were not pregnant.

Azim concluded by stating, "Our findings clearly demonstrate that pregnancy is safe in women with history of successfully treated breast cancer."