Grant: Project Grant

The incidence of cancer in pregnancy is increasing. Cancer treatment during pregnancy presents many unique clinical challenges as physicians strive to aggressively treat the cancer, while balancing fetal and obstetric risks. Long-term follow-up studies of children exposed to maternal cancer (who are treated with and without chemotherapy) are scarce and typically involve only a small number of children, meaning that the long-term effects of maternal cancer and chemotherapy on long-term child health are unknown. This study will used linked data from Alberta, British Columbia and Ontario to develop advanced statistical models to understand what impact maternal cancer and cancer treatment during pregnancy has on long-term child health status.