Is it safe for women to get pregnant after surviving cancer and cancer treatment?
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Teresa K. Woodruff, Ph.D.
The Watkins Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology
Director, The Oncofertility Consortium
Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University
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One of the questions a survivor might have is whether or not having a past history of chemotherapy or radiation would be safe on a pregnancy, and in fact once you have completed your chemotherapy or radiation, the body actually resets itself, and now you can go on and have a healthy pregnancy after you have survived the cancer and are now back in what we call the healthy lifestyle. So that chemotherapy or radiation you had several years ago is not going to now impact that developing embryo during the early stages of pregnancy.