The Dilemma Of Cancer And Pregnancy Firm Guidelines On Treatment Don’t Exist Because Cases Have Been Relatively Rare. A Jefferson Doctor – Herself A Mother – Helps Women Weigh The Risks.

Patty Sosnader, pregnant with her third child, was frighteningly ill.

The 33-year-old Norriton sales executive had been battling exhaustion, night sweats, shortness of breath, and a cough that awakened her and her husband, Glen, night after night.

At first she assumed it was just pregnancy fatigue. Then she figured it was a cold. Then her doctors raised a chilling possibility: cancer.