If a woman is pregnant and has breast cancer or gets pregnant after breast cancer, is she more likely to be cured if she carries the baby to term instead of choosing an abortion?
Yes. Research shows she is much more likely to be cured if she carries the baby to term instead of choosing an abortion. [20] The Breast Cancer Prevention Institute explains in its booklet that, If a woman does develop breast cancer while she is pregnant, her greatest chance for survival is if she is abe to carry the pregnancy to full term. HCG (human chorinonic gonadotropin), which is elevated during pregnancy, causes the ovary to produce a tumor suppressing protein called inhibin. HCG is also known to cause breast cancers to regress. In studies of women with breast cancer occurring during pregnancy, the only long-term survivors were women who did not undergo an induced abortion, but instead, gave birth or had a miscarriage. Breast cancer may be treated without harm to the baby, even when the mother is given chemotherapy after the first 8 weeks of pregnancy. [Breast Cancer Risks and Prevention, Pregnancy and Breast Cancer Risk, p. 14.
