A cancer diagnosis can be devastating, but is even more traumatic when the patient is pregnant. A new study offers some reassurance to pregnant patients and their physicians. The results of the small study, presented during a presidential session here at the 2011 European Multidisciplinary Cancer Congress, show that children who were exposed to chemotherapy in utero did not appear to suffer any detrimental effects in terms of general health and neurologic and cardiac functioning. September 27, 2011 (Stockholm, Sweden).
