MANAGEMENT OF PREGNANCY ASSOCIATED BREAST CANCER WITH CHEMOTHERAPY ADJUVANT

Pregnancy associated breast cancer is cancer occurring during pregnancy and up to one-year post delivery. Local oncologists have strong reservations about administering adjuvant chemotherapy for gestational breast cancer. I present a 31-year-old University graduate with early left breast cancer in first trimester that had adjuvant chemotherapy administered from the second trimester. She had a normal vaginal delivery at 37 weeks with good apgar scores of baby. Birth defects or discernible malformations were not noted. The safety of adjuvant chemotherapy from second trimester is documented in the literature