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How do you counsel young women who want to become pregnant after breast radiotherapy?

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Radiation Oncology · Varian Medical Systems/Allegheny health network

It also depends on whether she is on tamoxifen or not and whether she has had chemotherapy. She has to be off tamoxifen if desires to have a pregnancy. We also counsel them that milk output is usually less in the treated breast and that it is not contraindiacted to breast feed.

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