(Eileen Bailey/ Healthline) — Women in their childbearing years diagnosed with breast cancer typically take long-term medications that can prevent or delay getting pregnant.
Now, new research shows they might be able to pause their treatment for up to two years to get pregnant, have the baby, and breastfeed without raising their risk of having the cancer return.
The results of the study, led by Dr. Ann Partridge, MPH, a medical oncologist at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Boston, were presented at the San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium. They have yet to be published in a peer-reviewed journal.
The study followed 516 women who had surgery for breast cancer and then took hormone-blocking drugs for at least 18 months before stopping to get pregnant. (…)