Healthy baby born following Herceptin cancer treatment

Filed under: Breast Cancer, Chemotherapy, Research

Breast cancer occurs in one of every 3,000 pregnancies. Amazingly, depending on the stage of the pregnancy, pregnant women can receive treatment and still deliver healthy babies.

According to a case study published in February's Reproductive Toxicology, a 32-year-old woman who took the targeted Her-2 positive breast cancer drug Herceptin for the first 24 weeks of her pregnancy gave birth to a healthy baby girl. There have been three other similar cases reported. In all three, the babies were born healthy.

Due to a limited number of controlled studies, pregnant women are advised to take Herceptin only if the potential benefits outweigh the potential risk to the fetus.

Source: MAMM magazine, May/June 2007

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[Source: The Cancer Blog]