Biomedical Journal of Scientific and Technical Research | 2019
Primary Metastatic Ovarian Cancer in Pregnancy – ACase Report
Abstract
Malignant disease in pregnancy is rare and occurs in approximately 1:1000 cases. Most frequent in pregnancy are malignant melanomas (2,6:1000), Hodgin-lymphomas (1:1.0006.000), breast cancer (1:3.000-10.000) and cervix carcinomas (1,2:10.000). Ovarial cancer is particularly rare occuring in only 1-2 per 100.000 pregnancies [1-2]. Extrapolated to Germany, 6-12 patients per year are therefore expected, underlining the low incidence. Treatment of malignomas in pregnancy is usually similar to therapeutic measures in non-pregnant women, mainly due to the fact that results of controlled studies in pregnancy hardly exist. For the more frequent malignomas there is registry data which can be consulted. Yet for the uncommon ovarial cancerespecially in cases with primary metastasesonly case reports are available.