Study says children of women exposed to chemotherapy in pregnancy develop as well as other children

Thursday, February 9, 2012 - 18:30 in Health & Medicine

A study published Online First by The Lancet Oncology, and linked to The Lancet Series on cancer in pregnancy, shows that children of women exposed to chemotherapy while pregnant develop as well as children in the general population. The study is by Dr Frédéric Amant, Multidisciplinary Breast Cancer Center, Leuven Cancer Institute, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium, and colleagues.

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