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Women who are accustomed chemotherapy during abundance do not run a accident of harming their baby, doctors appear in The Lancet Oncology on Friday.

European blight specialists looked at 68 pregnancies, bearing 70 children, during which 236 cycles of blight drugs were administered.

On average, the women were 18 weeks abundant back their blight was diagnosed. The accouchement were built-in at 36 weeks on average.

The board adjourned the accouchement at birth, at the age of 18 months, and at either five, eight, nine, 11, 14 or 18 years.

They advised the accouchement for accepted health, accident to the axial afraid system, affection and audition problems, and activated their cerebral skills.

They begin no affirmation that the accouchement were afflicted by the blight treatment, said the study.

Babies built-in anon tended to do beneath able-bodied in cerebral tests, but this is accepted amid pre-term breed beyond the accepted population, it noted.

"We appearance that accouchement who were prenatally apparent to chemotherapy do as able-bodied as added children," the cardboard concluded.

Doctors should not be aflutter about administering blight drugs to abundant women, nor should they be tempted into inducing aboriginal bearing in the acceptance that this will assure the baby, it said.

"In practice, it is accessible to administrate chemotherapy from 14 weeks gestational age onwards," said the paper.

"To acquiesce the cartilage bottom to balance and to minimise the accident of affectionate and foetal sepsis and haemorrage, commitment should be planned at atomic three weeks afterwards the aftermost aeon of chemotherapy, and chemotherapy should not be accustomed afterwards 35 weeks back ad-lib labour becomes added probable."

The abstraction added a baby agenda of caution, adage added assignment is bare to appraise whether chemo causes any abiding problems.

The analysis was led by Frederic Amant of Leuven Catholic University's Blight Institute.