Testing pregnant people's blood to look at free-floating DNA can tell doctors about the health of the fetus. But these tests sometime turn up DNA that might be shed by cancerous cells.
Each participant in the trial would get an all-expense-paid trip to the NIH's clinical center, the biggest research hospital in the world, for a wide array of diagnostic tests including a full-body MRI scan, which is safe to do during pregnancy.
Some people have declined to participate in the study because they've gotten the idea from their doctor, or even a cancer specialist, that the test results most likely don't mean anything., director of the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, says that she and her colleagues faced that kind of skepticism when they started the IDENTIFY study.
"Of the ones who have been enrolled and have had the full workup, over half of them do have a tumor," says Bianchi."So this is not a trivial finding. Our take home message is, this really needs to be taken seriously." "Hearing that news that you have cancer, it's hard to describe. It's just such, like, an overwhelming experience," she says."And then you're also pregnant at the same time. Your emotions are kind of all over the place. It was definitely really difficult."
Unfortunately, even though Aukstikalnis had what appeared to be a clear scan after the first-line treatment that often puts people in remission, a subsequent scan showed that the lymphoma had likely returned.
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