[Cancer of the colon and pregnancy]. / Cáncer de colon y embarazo.

ABSTRACT

In a woman 31 year old, with a 21 week pregnancy, an adenocarcinoma was found in transverse colon, it was excised; she received chemotherapy. At week 33, a healthy female baby was obtained by cesarean section. The patient died four months after the diagnosis. Estrogen receptors in colon tumor were negative.