National Registries

As you know, few physicians have treated more than 1 or 2 pregnant patients with cancer. The best way, therefore, to learn what treatments are safe in pregnancy, and to learn how these women do compared to non-pregnant women, is to collect the cases from women around the country into one larger series. By doing this, hopefully physicians with less experience in treating such patients can learn that terminating the pregnancy may not be the only choice in all cases. Patients too, can benefit from learning that there are other women who have been diagnosed with cancer during pregnancy, and that they are not alone.

Dr. Elyce Cardonick, an active member of the Hope for Two…The Pregnant with Cancer Network Board of Advisors, is collecting information on pregnancies complicated by cancer. Dr. Cardonick is available to work with your oncologist in deciding which tests and procedures can be performed, and when, during pregnancy to maximize the safety of the fetus while not compromising the chance of cure of the mother.

Contact Dr. Cardonick
Phone: 856-342-2491 or leave
a message on a private
voicemail at 856-757-7876.

Chemotherapy has been given in pregnancy during the second and third trimester, after the fetal organs have all developed during the first trimester. Dr. Cardonick will work closely with your oncologist and obstetrician regarding the administration of chemotherapy during pregnancy, probably suggesting fetal ultrasounds during pregnancy or special studies at delivery and postpartum.

Dr. Cardonick keeps an ongoing registry of women diagnosed with cancer during pregnancy, and follows, in combination with their own physicians, the health of the women and their children. All information is kept confidential. We can learn so much more by studying 45 pregnancies in women with breast cancer than 1 or 2 a year.

If you would be interested in contributing your information to the database to advance the knowledge about cancer and pregnancy, please contact Dr. Cardonick directly. She can send you information and a consent form explaining the database. (Again, all is kept confidential). Your health, and the health of your child, will be followed periodically.

You may contact Dr. Cardonick at (856) 342-2491. Or you may leave a message on a private voicemail at 856-757-7876. If you live near Camden , New Jersey or Philadelphia please contact Dr. Cardonick at (856) 342-2491 to make an appointment to meet with her in person.

For patients with a history of cancer who are considering starting or expanding their families, Dr. Cardonick also has a registry of the pregnancy outcomes of women with a history of cancer.

Your involvement with any of these registries will contribute to valuable research.