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In two cases, cancers in a mother’s cervix were passed to their newborns during a vaginal delivery. These reports from Japanese pediatric oncologists appeared in a recent New England Journal of Medicine.
One mother was belatedly diagnosed with metastatic squamous cell-neuroendocrine cervical cancer 3 months following her delivery, and her child developed a neuroendocrine carcinoma just prior to a second birthday. The second mother was found to have a cervical adenocarcinoma, and her child developed a lung adenocarcinoma at age 6. Genetic studies demonstrated link between maternal and child cancers.
Pregnant women with known or suspected cancerous or precancerous cervical or vaginal lesions should opt for c-sections.
https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2030391
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