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If you were diagnose with breast cancer can you have a baby?

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If you were diagnose with breast cancer can you have a baby?

asked by twins2001 1 year 49 weeks ago
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by azriona submitted 1 year 49 weeks

Talk to your doctor; depending on your course of treatment, it may affect your fertility.  Sometimes insurance will pay for egg harvesting and storage in cases like that; it's worth looking into.

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by Lori Day submitted 1 year 49 weeks

Another consideration is whether the type of breast cancer you had was estrogen-receptive, as most are in younger women. If you get pregant, your hormones go up, and you can get a recurrence of cancer. I don't want to scare you, but this happened to a friend of mine and she is now stage 4 with three little kids and probably won't make it. Just talk to your doctor. The odds are probably with you, but you should be thoroughly informed of any dangers and make an educated decsion about whther you *should* get pregnant, regardless of whether you physically can or not.

Lori Day

www.loridayconsulting.com

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