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Pregnancy After Breast Cancer

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Breast Cancer, Fertility Preservation and Reproduction

Abstract

Receiving cancer diagnosis can be devastating for many patients but thanks to advances in cancer therapies it is not a death sentence anymore. Cancer survival rates are increasing and life after cancer is a real chance for many patients worldwide. In Europe, about one third of cancer patients have a relative 5-year survival rate greater than 80 % [1]. Similar survival rates are seen in the United States, Canada and Australia. Lower survival rates in developing countries are most likely due to late diagnosis and limited availability of up-to-date standard treatments [2, 3].

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    Nicoletta Biglia MD, PhD, Nicoletta Tomasi Cont, Valentina Bounous, Marta d’Alonzo & Silvia Pecchio

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Biglia, N., Cont, N.T., Bounous, V., d’Alonzo, M., Pecchio, S. (2015). Pregnancy After Breast Cancer. In: Biglia, N., Peccatori, F. (eds) Breast Cancer, Fertility Preservation and Reproduction. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-17278-1_6

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