Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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2118866 | Cancer/Radiothérapie | 2007 | 5 Pages |
Abstract
We report the case of a 19-year-old young woman for whom was discovered a pregnancy at the end of the irradiation for a Hodgkin lymphoma (stage IV bone Bb), initially treated by chemotherapy. The radiotherapy delivered 36Â Gy in infra-diaphragmatic volumes (lombo-aortic, spleen, L5), beginning in a pregnant patient for less than 4 amenorrhea weeks. The calculated received fetal dose (literature data, measurement with software TPS, measurement on phantom) is high: it's between 2.8 and 5Â Gy. With a current follow-up of 4Â years since the radiotherapy's end, the patient is in complete remission and her child presents with a normal development for the age, in spite of the infradiaphragmatic irradiation.
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Authors
M.V. Moreau, C. Brunaud, S. Bologna, V. Marchesi, S. Hoffstetter, D. Peiffert,