STAT December 20, 2023
Good morning. Today we take a look at how health care happens outside the exam room: in a kitchen, in politics, in the courts, and in poetry.
Abortion restriction narrow choices for pregnant cancer patients
Pregnant cancer patients have always faced an impossible dilemma: Their life-saving cancer treatments could harm their unborn children. That’s a nearly impossible choice, but in post-Dobbs America, restrictions on abortion access may take that decision out of patients’ — and their doctors’ — hands. Cancer complications may also force decisions on whether to prioritize the life of the mother or the fetus. Oncologist Katherine Van Loon recalls a patient urging her to remember her two other children at home.
“We are being limited in terms...
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