Antepartum fetal monitoring in the oncologic patient

Cancer and Pregnancy: A Health Care Dilemma

“…Antepartum fetal surveillance assesses fetal well-being in high-risk populations, with the goal of reducing fetal mortality (American College of Obstetricians [ACOG], 1994a). A pregnancy complicated by cancer is classified as high risk because the maternal health status may affect the fetus through maternal systemic effects from the cancer, the effects of diagnosis and treatment, or direct effects from tumor hormone secretion or transplacental metastasis (Ezra & Panter, 1996).…”