J Korean Surg Soc.
1999 Dec;57(6):902-908.
Breast Cancer during Pregnancy
- Affiliations
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- 1Department of General Surgery, College of Medicine, Ewha Womans University.
Abstract
- The pregnancy-associated breast cancer is one of the most common malignacy developed during pregnant period and occupies 1-2% of the all breast cancer pateints. It is easy to miss appropriate diagnosis due to difficulty of physical examination of the breast and limitation of proper diagnostic modality. The pregnancy-associated breast cancer has been reported to portend an extremely poor outcome. But recent studies have found no difference in survival between general breast cancer and pregnancy-associated breast cancer. The treatment of choice is the modified radical mastectomy and adjuvant chemotherapy if needed. The authors report two patients of breast cancer diagnosed and treated during pregnancy with review of literature.
