Breast Cancer and Pregnancy

JRsUSA91

Hello I Joined this Forums a couple days ago and been reading posts. I have a question about Pregnancy after Breast Cancer and hope someone could help me. I don't have anyone in my immediate fmaily who has or had Breast Cancer.

GMA News-anchor Amy Robach released a book this week in which she talk about her battle with Stage 2B Breast Cancer. She was 40 when she was diagnosed. She had been married once before and had 2 kids from her previous marriage and had been married to her second husband (who had 3 form previous marriage) for almost 4 Years by this point.

She wrote in her book that she would have love to (and wanted) have had another child with her second husband but after her surgery and before chemo her doctor told her she could not have anymore children in her lifetime. The Two she had already would be it.

Hoda Kotb (who was diagnosed at 42) said the same that doctors told her after her surgery she could not have any children. although she was in process of getting divorce so she was not to sad by it.

I was wondering and maybe someone who been in same position can answer this but is it the medicine they take or the chemo they are given that prevent them from having another child or having any children at at all? What it is that cause this?

SpecialK

Less likely to be anything given as treatment, more likely to be because estrogen fueled their previously diagnosed cancers. A pregnancy as they potentially approached peri menopause might possibly cause too much of a surge of estrogen for their physicians to feel comfortable