Cancer and Pregnancy

1. Front Matter

   Pages I-XI

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2. Why Is the Topic of Cancer and Pregnancy So Important? Why and How to Read this Book

   • Antonella Surbone, Fedro Peccatori, Nicholas Pavlidis

   Pages 1-2

3. Prenatal Irradiation and Pregnancy: The Effects of Diagnostic Imaging and Radiation Therapy

   • Roberto Orecchia, Giovanni Lucignani, Giampiero Tosi

   Pages 3-20

4. Maternal and Fetal Effects of Systemic Therapy in the Pregnant Woman with Cancer

   • David Pereg, Michael Lishner

   Pages 21-38

5. Breast Cancer During Pregnancy: Epidemiology, Surgical Treatment, and Staging

   • Oreste Gentilini

   Pages 39-44

6. Breast Cancer During Pregnancy: Medical Therapy and Prognosis

   • Stefan Aebi, Sybille Loibl

   Pages 45-55

7. Subsequent Pregnancy After Breast Cancer

   • Fedro Peccatori, Saverio Cinieri, Laura Orlando, Giulia Bellettini

   Pages 57-67

8. Cervical and Endometrial Cancer During Pregnancy

   • Sean Kehoe

   Pages 69-74

9. Ovarian Cancers in Pregnancy

   • Cristiana Sessa, Michela Maur

   Pages 75-78

10. Fertility After the Treatment of Gynecologic Tumors

    • Vesna Kesic

    Pages 79-95

11. Leukaemia and Pregnancy

    • Martin F. Fey, Daniel Surbek

    Pages 97-110

12. Hodgkin and Non-Hodgkin Lymphomas During Pregnancy

    • Patrizia Froesch, Volmar Belisario-Filho, E. Zucca

    Pages 111-121

13. Pregnancy and Thyroid Cancer

    • Bianca Gibelli, P. Zamperini, N, Tradati

    Pages 123-135

14. Gastrointestinal, Urologic and Lung Malignancies During Pregnancy

    • George Pentheroudakis, Nicholas Pavlidis

    Pages 137-164

15. Melanoma During Pregnancy: Epidemiology, Diagnosis, Staging, Clinical Picture

    • Marko Lens

    Pages 165-174

16. Melanoma During Pregnancy: Therapeutic Management and Outcome

    • Harald J. Hoekstra

    Pages 175-181

17. Metastatic Involvement of Placenta and Foetus in Pregnant Women with Cancer

    • Nicholas Pavlidis, George Pentheroudakis

    Pages 183-194

18. The Obstetric Care of the Pregnant Woman with Cancer

    • Mandish K. Dhanjal, Sotiris Mitrou

    Pages 195-201

19. Fertility Issues and Options in Young Women with Cancer

    • Kutluk Oktay, Murat Sönmezer

    Pages 203-224

20. Psychooncologic Care in Young Women Facing Cancer and Pregnancy

    • Judith Alder, Johannes Bitzer

    Pages 225-236

Te European School of Oncology is delighted to ber of female former cancer patients expected to see that the faculty of its course on cancer and have a successful pregnancy. pregnancy has succeeded—and in a remarkably Another group of individuals that deserves short time—in producing this greatly stimulat - our attention are women who have survived a ing book. childhood cancer and who should be managed Very few human and clinical situations en - by a multidisciplinary specialist team. Fort- compass such opposite extremes as pregnancy nately, many studies are underway and we hope and cancer, hope and fear, sometimes life and to soon have new insights into this extraord- death. narily complex issue. Any health professional who has been con- Te European School of Oncology is grateful fronted with this issue knows how difcult it is to Dr. A. Surbone for her successful coordin -a from the clinical viewpoint but also how chal- tion of our teaching course and for having taken lenging it is on the emotional side. the initiative to publish this book. We hope that In recent years the success of cancer medicine it will contribute to helping many children have has increased the number of survivors and the their mother cured of her cancer and be able to length of their survival, thus increasing the num- love them forever.

• Staging
• breast cancer during pregnancy
• cancer treatment
• clinical trial
• fertility
• fetus
• imaging
• lymphoma
• melanoma
• metastatic involvement of placenta and foetus
• ovarian cancer
• placenta
• pregnancy
• systemic therapy
• tumor

• Head, Teaching, Research and Development Department, European School of Oncology, Milan, Italy

  Antonella Surbone

• Associate Professor of Clinical Medicine, New York University, New York, USA

  Antonella Surbone

• Department of Medicine, Division of Hematology and Oncology, Istituto Europeo di Oncologia, Milan, Italy

  Fedro Peccatori

• Department of Medical Oncology, University of Ioannina, Ioannina, Greece

  Nicholas Pavlidis

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