Can I still get pregnant after breast cancer surgery

Can you still get pregnant after breast cancer surgery? There is no evidence that having children will affect the prognosis of breast cancer patients, but when choosing whether and when to have children, the patient's risk of disease recurrence and metastasis and the impact of treatment on offspring must be fully considered. Let's take a look at the following introduction.

1. Patients with breast carcinoma in situ, that is, without local invasion and distant metastasis, can consider having children after completing surgery and radiotherapy.

2. Patients with invasive breast cancer and negative lymph nodes can consider having children 2-3 years after surgery, because the period before this is the peak period for postoperative recurrence and metastasis.

3. Patients with lymph node-positive breast cancer can consider having children 5 years after surgery.

4. Patients who need auxiliary endocrine therapy should stop endocrine therapy three months before conception and continue endocrine therapy until they stop breastfeeding after giving birth.

Whether breast cancer patients can have children is a more complicated question. If the estrogen receptor (ER) and progesterone receptor (PR) test results are negative, that is, the patient does not need endocrine therapy (if one or both of ER and PR test results are positive, the patient needs endocrine therapy), we recommend that she should not get pregnant within three years after surgery and chemotherapy, because the incidence of tumor recurrence and metastasis is relatively high in the first three years. If after three years, the patient is in good physical condition and has the desire to have children, I think she can get pregnant.