Abstract
Cancer in pregnancy is not rare, and the possibility of transmission of malignancy from mother to child, while infrequent, represents a clinical challenge for the primary pediatric hematologist-oncologist. The authors summarize all reported cases of vertically transmitted cancer and review other reported cases of person-to-person transfer of malignancy. As these cases represent a unique physiologic model of tumor transplantation, the biology of cancer transmission is discussed and provisional guidelines are given for the screening of infants born to women with cancer.
| Original language | English (US) |
|---|---|
| Pages (from-to) | 430-434 |
| Number of pages | 5 |
| Journal | Journal of pediatric hematology/oncology |
| Volume | 25 |
| Issue number | 6 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - Jun 2003 |
Keywords
- Cancer
- Neonatal malignancy
- Neoplasm metastasis
- Pregnancy
- Transplacental transmission of cancer
