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Chemo on pregnant women does not always harm baby, says study | | Health | 10-02-2012, 10:25 |  0  153 |
| Children born to women undergoing cancer drug treatment show normal results in physical and mental development tests, informs the Guardian.
Babies whose mothers undergo cancer drug treatment during their pregnancy do not appear to suffer any long-term harm, according to a groundbreaking study.
When a pregnant woman is diagnosed with cancer, she and her family and doctors are faced with difficult decisions about her health and that of her unborn child. It is known that giving chemotherapy in the first 12 weeks, when the baby's organs are still forming, raises the chances of birth defects.
Postponing the treatment, however, could allow the cancer to spread. Over the last decade, doctors have been more willing to use chemotherapy after the first trimester, but there have been worries that the child's brain and heart could suffer damage.
Researchers in the Lancet Oncology journal report that they have followed the progress of 70 children whose mothers had chemotherapy while they were in the womb – and their findings are reassuring.
The study began in 2005, recruiting some children retrospectively and following others from birth. Every few years the children, who ranged in age from 18 months to 18 years, were given physical and mental development tests.
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