National and international guidelines for pregnant breast cancer patients recommend to treat pregnant patients as closely as possible to the standards for non-pregnant patients. Therefore, new treatment options like sentinel lymph node biopsy or taxane-based chemotherapy have to be carefully checked for their possible implementation even for pregnant patients. These patients need to be treated in a breast cancer center where a multidisciplinary team is ready to support the patient and her family and to serve her with the best up-to-date treatment for mother and child.
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