Women Detected Cancer While Pregnant

Women Detected Cancer While Pregnant

Women who are pregnant tend to be vulnerable to various health problems due to a very weak physically. Though mothers are required to maintain their health for the sake of the condition of the baby. Unfortunately, a recent study found that more women are diagnosed with cancer during pregnancy or 12 months thereafter.

The study, published in the British Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology suggests that increased case finding is caused by increased interaction between the mother with a doctor or midwife during pregnancy.

"In addition, these hormones is released during pregnancy can be accelerated tumor growth so that the tumor was so much easier to detect," said one researcher, Professor Christine Roberts as quoted from the Telegraph.

To get to this conclusion, researchers looked at 1.3 million cases of births in the state of New South Wales, Australia between the years 1994-2008.

From there, researchers discovered 1798 cases of cancer associated with pregnancy or equal to 137.3 cases per 100,000 births. The numbers increased from 112.3 cases per 100,000 live births in 1994 to 191.5 cases per 100,000 live births in 2008.

In the same period, the number of women aged 35 who has only one child increased from 7 people to one per 4 people.

No wonder if the researchers had suspected one of the causes of the increasing number of cancer cases in women during pregnancy because of the physical condition of a mother who has experienced a decline and vulnerable to disease.

The type of cancer most commonly found include skin cancer (melanoma), breast cancer, thyroid cancer and some other rare endocrine cancers.

Not only that, the researchers also found that cancer cases are discovered during pregnancy may be associated with higher risk of cesarean births, premature births by length of pregnancy (gestation).

"The problem is likely to delay woman today have children but it can increase the risk of cancer while pregnant. Luckily pregnancy has prompted an increase in interaction between the women with a doctor or midwife so that the diagnosis could be expedited," said Roberts of the Kolling Institute of Medical Research , University of Sydney, New South Wales.