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How pregnancy can boost risk of cancer spread

Here's why women who get breast cancer after having a baby are at higher risk of tumour metastasis to the liver than women who have never been pregnant.

Women who get breast cancer within five years of giving birth are at much higher risk than those who have never had children of seeing the tumours spread, or metastasize, to the liver. This could be due to changes in the liver as it readjusts after pregnancy.

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doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-017-00564-3

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