After chemotherapy for early and locally advanced breast cancer, how long do you advise women to wait before attempting to conceive?

This is an area with little data to guide recommendtions. Population databases have NOT found an increased risk of recurrence in patients who conceive after diagnosis and treatment - if anything those who conceive do better (this form of bias has been called the healthy mother effect). Timing of conception attempts will depend on the patients age (the fertility clock keeps ticking) and partner status/desire. We also talk about the risk of recurrence and timecourse of that risk - patients and the...