“…Cohorts without control groups including between four and 121 women (Ribeiro et al, 1986;Daly and Donnellan, 1992;Berry et al, 1999;Giacalone et al, 1999;Kuerer et al, 2002;Ring et al, 2005) have shown that the majority of women who are diagnosed with breast cancer during or shortly after pregnancy give birth to healthy children. Two controlled studies, however, suggested an increased risk of preterm birth and low birth weight for offspring of these women (Zemlickis et al, 1992;Smith et al, 2001). Therefore, within a cohort study, we examined birth outcome in all women diagnosed with breast cancer in Denmark from 1943 to 2002, compared with women without cancer.…”