Birth Outcomes Among Adolescent and Young Adult Cancer Survivors.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Cancer diagnosis and treatment may adversely affect reproductive outcomes among female cancer survivors.

Objective

To compare the birth outcomes of adolescent and young adult cancer survivors (AYA [diagnosed at ages 15-39 years]) with those of women without a cancer diagnosis.

Design, setting, and participants

The North Carolina Central Cancer Registry (CCR) was used to identify female AYA cancer survivors diagnosed from January 2000 to December 2013; CCR records were linked to statewide birth certificate files from January 2000 to December 2014 to identify postdiagnosis live births to AYA survivors (n = 2598). A comparison cohort of births to women without a recorded cancer diagnosis was randomly selected from birth certificate files (n = 12 990) with freq

SUBMITTER: Anderson C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5824217 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature