After chemotherapy for early and locally advanced breast cancer, how long do you advise women to wait before attempting to conceive?
Does your recommendation change depending on the agents they received?
Answer from: Medical Oncologist at Academic Institution
This is an area with little data to guide recommendtions. Population databases have NOT found an increased risk of recurrence in patients who conceive after diagnosis and treatment - if anything those who conceive do better (this form of bias has been called the healthy mother effect). Timing of con...