Rise in Pregnancy-Associated Cancers Not Fully Explained by Older Age
A rise in the rate of pregnancy-associated cancers is only partially explained by the increasing number of older mothers, a new study contends.
A pregnancy-associated cancer is one in which an initial diagnosis of cancer is made during pregnancy or within a year of giving birth.
Researchers looked at nearly 782,000 women who gave birth (a total of 1.3 million births) in New South Wales,...