Cancer in Pregnancy and Lactation

Gideon Koren is the founder and director of the Motherisk Program and Professor of Pediatrics, Pharmacology, Pharmacy and Medical Genetics at the University of Toronto, Canada. Michael Lishner is a Professor at the Sackler School of Medicine, Tel Aviv University and Head of the Department of Medicine at Meir Medical Center, Kfar Saba, Israel.

Preface; Part I. Specific Tumors During Pregnancy: 1. Bone malignancies in pregnancy Michael Lishner and Alla Osadchy; 2. Breast cancer and pregnancy Liat Mlynarsky and Michael Lishner; 3. Cervical cancer during pregnancy Asnat Walfisch; 4. Hepatocellular carcinoma Parvaneh Yazdani-Brojeni and Michael Lishner; 5. Hodgkin's lymphoma in pregnancy David Pereg and Michael Lishner; 6. Intracranial tumours in pregnancy Michael Lishner and Geert W. 't Jong; 7. The treatment of acute and chronic leukemia during pregnancy Tali Shapira-Rotenberg and Michael Lishner; 8. Lung cancer and pregnancy Hisaki Fujii; 9. Malignant melanoma and pregnancy Michael Lishner and Michael P. Tan; 10. Non-Hodgkin's lymphoma during pregnancy David Pereg and Michael Lishner; 11. Ovarian tumors and pregnancy Rinat Hackmon; 12. Thyroid cancer and pregnancy Michael P. Tan; Part II. Fetal Effects of Cancer Treatments and Interventions: 13. Pregnancy and radiation Eyal Fenig; 14. Chemotherapy during pregnancy Israel Mazin, David Pereg and Michael Lishner; 15. Non-obstetrical surgical interventions during pregnancy Bi Lan Wo, Angela Mazzolli and Alon Shrim; Part III. Management of Maternal Complications During Treatment: 16. Management of complications associated with cancer or antineoplastic treatment during pregnancy Michael P. Tan; 17. Management of nutritional problems in the pregnant cancer patient Deborah A. Kennedy; 18. Pharmacological and non-pharmacological treatment of chemotherapy-induced nausea and vomiting Caroline Maltepe; 19. Fertility considerations and methods of fertility preservation in patients undergoing treatment for cancer Avi Leader; Part IV. Long Term Effects of In Utero Exposure on Children: 20. Long term neurodevelopment of children exposed in utero to treatment for maternal cancer Irena Nulman, Claire Tobias and Elizabeth Uleryk; 21. Fertility of children exposed in utero to chemotherapy Tali Schechter and Ronen Loebstein; 22. Lactation and cancer chemotherapy Taro Kamiya and Shinya Ito; 23. Breast cancer and pregnancy: critical review of the effects of prior and subsequent pregnancy on the prognosis of young women with breast tumor Nava Siegelmann-Danieli and Ronen Loebstein; 24. Effects of the placenta of metastatic breast cancer Shelly Tartakover-Matalon, Liat Drucker and Michael Lishner; Index.