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Practice Point
Systemic therapy – Breastfeeding
Breastfeeding is not recommended during chemotherapy or endocrine therapy.
In the absence of safety data, breastfeeding shortly after chemotherapy is not recommended
How this guidance was developed
This practice point was developed using an expert consensus process. Development of the practice point was informed by a source recommendation in the ESGC 2010 guidelines (US) that was not graded by the source guideline authors and was based on a non-systematic review of the evidence (the date of the review was not reported) and is also informed by a recent Academy of Breastfeeding Medicine (US) Clinical Protocol (2020).
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Systemic therapy – Breastfeeding
Practice Point
Breastfeeding is not recommended during chemotherapy or endocrine therapy.
Principles in action
Safe and quality care
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Communication
This practice point was developed using an expert consensus process. Development of the practice point was informed by a source recommendation in the ESGC 2010 guidelines (US) that was not graded by the source guideline authors and was based on a non-systematic review of the evidence (the date of the review was not reported) and is also informed by a recent Academy of Breastfeeding Medicine (US) Clinical Protocol (2020).
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