Cancer during pregnancy: chemotherapy and radiotherapy are safe for babies, studies suggest

Monday, September 29, 2014 - 05:30 in Health & Medicine

Children who are exposed to chemotherapy or radiotherapy while in the womb suffer no negative impacts on mental or cardiac development, international studies have shown. “When chemotherapy is administered after the first trimester of pregnancy, we cannot discern any problems in the children,” says lead author of a study on the topic.

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