Chemotherapy for pregnant women
Although the diagnosis of cancer in pregnancy is rare, it affects more and more women
One of the main reasons is the older age of the expectant mother. When their first child is born, women today are on average only a few years older than their mothers and grandmothers were. Overall, however, the reproductive phase is extending further and further back, so that the majority of children are now born to women over 30. However, with age, the risk of developing cancer also increases. Consequently, cancer is increasingly being diagnosed in pregnant women as well. Tendency increasing.