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| Hope brightens for pregnant cancer patients Mon, 28 Jul 2008 02:29 EDT ST. LOUIS . Something felt wrong in Leila Sadat's right breast. The Washington University law professor tried to ignore the nagging worry about a hard spot that mammograms did not detect. Doctors thought it was nothing more serious than a blocked milk duct. It couldn't be cancer. Sadat was pregnant. As many as one in 1,000 pregnant women will be diagnosed with cancer. Doctors expect that number to rise as more women delay childbirth into their 30s and 40s, because cancer risk increases with age. Pregnant women with cancer must make life-and-death decisions times two. .That tension is more poignant because here it's my life versus my baby's life,. said Dr. James Bartelsmeyer, director of maternal-fetal medicine at St. John's Mercy Medical Center in Creve Coeur, Mo., where doctors treat cancer in five to 10 pregnant women each year. .What's good for the mother is often at conflict with what's good for the baby.. |
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