Pregnancy May Protect Breast Cancer Survivors

Medical industry survives on the results ofcapable of increasing the tumors in breast cancer can
researches, so that it has substance to work withalso play a role in controlling the tumors when it is at
for the progress of humanity. Cancer is the seconda certain level. The body also naturally produces
biggest killer in the United States. Different types ofseveral antibodies during pregnancy for the safety of
cancer kill millions of people every year. A newthe mother and child.
research about breast cancer proposes that women,Another research in Australia showed that women,
who have the cancer, can actually be saved bywho developed breast cancer in a year of giving birth
pregnancy.to the child, were highly susceptible to succumbing to
The rates of survival may increase if the women getthe disease than other women of similar age.
pregnant. Ironically, several women are delayingWhereas as women who developed breast cancer
getting pregnant in order to have a better chance ofduring pregnancy had the same chances of survival
survival. In fact, this is a notion that is also supportedas any other woman. This caused the researchers to
by many doctors as estrogen is identified toconclude that the time when a woman decides to
accelerate the growth of malignant tumors in theget pregnant and resort to breastfeeding plays a big
breast. Also, women, who are of child bearing age,role in masking the tumor as the breasts undergo
are more susceptible to get breast cancer than inchanges.
any other stage in life.The result of a subsequent research conducted in
When questioned about why pregnancy decreasedGermany will be a welcome relief to many pregnant
the chances of dying in women who already havewomen, who have been diagnosed with breast
cancer, the reports showed hormones may have acancer. The research showed that the developing
big role in the whole process. Pregnancy is afetus is not harmed if a woman undergoes
physiological condition that regulates severalchemotherapy while being pregnant.
hormones in the body. Also, estrogen which is