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Women who take a daily multivitamin before and during pregnancy sharply reduce the likelihood that their children will develop leukemia, brain tumors and other forms of childhood cancer, according to new Canadian research. Taking multivitamins and folic acid during your pregnancy can greatly lower the risk of the mother’s baby developing cancer by almost 50 [...]
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Women whose mothers took a common pregnancy drug are at risk of early menopause, research shows. A study of thousands of women revealed that those who were exposed to the ‘wonder drug’ DES in the womb were 50 per cent more likely to start the menopause early. The discovery adds to the horrific legacy of [...]
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Pregnant women with breast cancer can be safely treated with a common chemotherapy combination during both the second and third trimesters, researchers report. The majority of babies will not experience significant short-term complications linked to maternal treatment, they added. “Further follow-up of the children is required to determine the potential long-term effects of this exposure,” [...]
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TENS of thousands of women whose mothers took an anti-miscarriage drug are nearly twice as likely to develop breast cancer, researchers have warned. A form of synthetic oestrogen called DES – diethylstilbestrol – was routinely given to pregnant women from the 1940s, as it was said to cut the risk of miscarriage and help produce [...]
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The Kristen Hartland Memorial Fund at M.D. Anderson Cancer Center was established to help with research on pregnant women with cancer.Kristen was diagnosed with breast cancer at the age of 25. She went through the surgeries and chemotherapy and was excited to find out she was pregnant when she was finished with her treatments. Unfortunately [...]
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