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annelise, with all due respect, i don't think ANY doctor would ever say that pregnancy is a GOOD thing for someone who has had breast cancer. Forgetting about the hormones for a moment, pregnancy is a HUGE burden on the body,and it can send the immune system into a tailspin (or not...but i would not want to flip that coin).
every one of my doctors has the opposite view of what you just said. my cancer was highly progesterone positive, and progesterone is what keeps the baby from being expelled from your body in the first weeks of pregnancy. LOTS of progesterone. If you check with a fertility doctor, they monitor one thing primarily in early pregnancy: the increase in PROGESTERONE. And that increase is EXPONENTIAL in the first weeks. Estrogen doesn't start to increase drastically until later on in pregnancy. In either case, progesterone is as deadly as estrogen in hormone-positive patients. Pr and ER are considered the same for purposes of determining a patient's response to hormone treatment.
lauren
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