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How Routine Prenatal Tests Can Detect Cancer and What It Means for Pregnant Women
After a prenatal test revealed that she had cancer, Dr. Sara Teichholtz (shown here with her 4-year-old son) was treated at MSK for cholangiocarcinoma. Nearly three years later, she has no evidence of ...
ABC News
Man Takes Pregnancy Test as Joke, Finds Testicular Tumor
Testicular cancer can disrupt the hormone detected by pregnancy tests. Nov. 6, 2012— -- A Reddit post about a man's positive pregnancy test appears to have alerted him to a testicular tumor. The ...
AOL
Routine Prenatal Test Discovers Woman's Rare, Aggressive Cancer at Age 35
Dr. Sara Teichholtz, a psychiatrist in Washington, D.C., was early in her pregnancy when she took a routine prenatal test to check for chromosomal abnormalities in her developing baby. So, Teichholtz, ...
The Economist
A routine test for fetal abnormalities could improve a mother’s health
WHEN NON-INVASIVE prenatal testing (NIPT) arrived in 2011, it transformed pregnancy. With a simple blood test, scientists could now sweep a mother’s bloodstream for scraps of placental DNA, uncovering ...