Introduction:
Breast cancer is reported to occur in from 1 in 3000
to 1 in 10,000 pregnancies worldwide1. It may
present many difficult medical and psychosocial
problems and historically has placed the welfare of
the mother in conflict with that of the fetus.
To detect breast cancer, pregnant and lactating
women should practice self-examination and undergo
a breast examination as part of the routine prenatal
examination by a doctor. If an abnormality is found,
diagnostic approaches such as ultrasound and
mammography may be used. With proper shielding,
mammography poses little risk of radiation exposure
to the fetus2. Diagnosis may be safely accomplished
with a fine-needle aspiration or excisional biopsy
under local anesthesia3