Oh no! She is pregnant and has cancer too! Get an oncogynacologist involved! Cervical cancer in pregnancy is a difficult situation in which the risks of all the various treatment options available need to be fully considered and carefully implemented. Cervical cancer during pregnancy is relatively uncommon.
It is the most challenging cancer type during pregnancy as the pregnant uterus itself is involved. Three in 100 of women diagnosed with cervical cancer are pregnant or postpartum at the time of diagnosis. Fifty percent of these cases are diagnosed prenatally, and remaining are diagnosed in the 12 months after delivery. Cervical cancer is one of the most common malignancies in pregnancy, with an estimated incidence of 0.7 to 1.3 cases per 10,000 births. If rarity of the disease, and the complexity of all factors are considered, the standardization of treatment is very…
