Breast Cancer During Pregnancy

The pregnancy-associated breast cancer is one of the most common malignacy developing during the period of pregnancy and occupies 1-2% of the all breast cancer patients. It is not easy to make an appropriate diagnosis due to difficulty of physical examination of the breast and limitation of proper diagnostic modalities. The pregnancy-associated breast cancer had been reported to portend an extremely poor outcome. But recent studies have found no difference in survival between general breast cancer and pregnancy-associated breast cancer. The treatment of choice is the modified radical mastectomy and adjuvant chemotherapy if needed. The authors report two patients of breast cancer diagnosed and treated during pregnancy with review of literature.