A concise review on breast cancer in pregnancy

Abstract

Breast cancer is major serious cancer in the women, it can be easily treated with chemotherapy drugs or by breast conservation surgery if it is diagnosed earlier. However the condition become even worse in those pregnant women, because chemotherapy is the most common first line prophylaxis treatment for breast cancer. In pregnancy diagnosed with breast cancer reveals a complicated chemotherapy because it affect the fetus and eventually produce fetal abnormalities and decreases the survival chances of fetus. The 50% survival chances of breast cancer patient is increased with the early diagnosis. Hormonal factors like estrogen, inheritance of BRCA1 and BRCA2 are the foremost responsible for breast cancer, it can get even worsen due to life style adaptations. Multi-drug resistance is eventually happen due to prolonged chemotherapy.