Browsing by Subject "Pregnancy complications"
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Cancer and pregnancy
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Cancer and pregnancy: A comprehensive review
(2011)Background: Pregnancy complicated by cancer is relatively rare but, as women in western societies tend to delay childbearing to the third and fourth decade of life, this phenomenon is going to be encountered more often in ...
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Cancer and pregnancy: Poena magna, not anymore
(2006)Cancer diagnosed during pregnancy constitutes a difficult clinical condition with a devastating impact on the patient's somatic and psychosocial health and possibly on foetal integrity. This circumstance also raises several ...
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Cancer and pregnancy: What should we know about the management with systemic treatment of pregnant women with cancer?
(2011)The incidence of cancer during pregnancy is a rare phenomenon and is estimated to occur in 1:1000 pregnancies. This co-existence is likely to rise since the delay of childbearing to the later reproductive age is nowadays ...
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Cancer of unknown primary during pregnancy: An exceptionally rare coexistence
(2015)Background: Cancer in pregnancy is a rare disease with breast cancer, cervical cancer, melanoma and Hodgkin's disease to be the most commonly diagnosed malignancies during gestation. Cancer of unknown primary (CUP) is a ...
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Clear cell ovarian carcinoma in a pregnant woman with a history of infertility, endometriosis and unsuccessful IVF treatment
(2003)Ovarian cancer in pregnancy is a very rare event. We present here the case of a 37-year-old woman in whom a clear cell ovarian carcinoma was diagnosed in the first trimester of pregnancy. This patient had a history of ...
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Coexistence of pregnancy and malignancy
(2002)Cancer complicating pregnancy is a rare coexistence. The incidence is approximately 1 in 1,000 pregnancies. The most common cancers are those more frequently seen during the reproductive age of a woman. Breast cancer, ...
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Fertility in female patients with thalassemia
(1998)With recent therapeutic advances, thalassemic patients can now reach adulthood and attain reproductive capacity. Endocrine complications due to hemosiderosis and especially hypogonatotropic hypogonadism, which present ...
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Gastrointestinal stromal tumors during pregnancy: a systematic review of an uncommon but treatable malignancy
(2015)Although modern social structure and medical advances have led to the increasing number of women childbearing in older age, cancer remains a rare diagnosis during pregnancy. There is little given information throughout the ...
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Lung cancer in pregnancy: Report of nine cases from an international collaborative study
(2013)Objective: Lung cancer is an uncommon diagnosis during pregnancy. The combination of smoking in young women, increased maternal age during pregnancy, and increasing incidence of lung cancer worldwide may cause an increase ...
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Lung cancer in the pregnant woman: To treat or not to treat, that is the question
(2010)Lung cancer in pregnancy is a rare situation; however, it is increasingly reported in the past two decades. The association might be more encountered in the coming years due to the rising trends of cigarette smoking among ...
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The pregnant mother with breast cancer: Diagnostic and therapeutic management
(2005)This review describes the epidemiology, pathology, clinical picture and therapeutic management of pregnant women with breast cancer. In addition, it covers other important issues like the safety of both diagnostic and ...
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A pregnant patient with adrenocortical carcinoma: Case report
(2012)Background: Coexistence of an adrenocortical carcinoma and pregnancy is extremely rare with only 25 described cases so far, and has a poor prognosis. Case Report: We report the case of a 28-year-old patient with adrenocortical ...