Oncologists worry restrictions on abortions in Republican-led states after Roe v. Wade's reversal could force pregnant cancer patients to delay critical treatments, like various chemotherapies.
earlier this month: "For people who are diagnosed with cancer during pregnancy, already a devastating life circumstance, decisions about what treatments to pursue ... are urgent and best made with an informed physician who can consider all evidence-based, scientific options, including termination."
"What is defined as a 'medical emergency'? This is what physicians are having to grapple with across the country, especially in states that are outlawing abortion," said Jain, the Illinois oncologist. "Because if, for example, a woman comes in and she has a new lymphoma diagnosis and she needs to start chemotherapy, it's not a medical emergency in the sense that she's not going to die in the next hour or five hours or a day, if you don't start chemotherapy.
But now, she said, "I'm going to have to change that conversation to say, 'Don't get pregnant because in addition to the stress of having cancer and undergoing chemotherapy, you will have to live with the stress of a pregnancy whose outcome is unknown to you.'"
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