{"id":3826,"date":"2008-09-01T04:05:00","date_gmt":"2008-09-01T04:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=3826"},"modified":"2025-09-30T01:04:51","modified_gmt":"2025-09-30T01:04:51","slug":"ny-magazine-feature-breast-cancer-in-a-pregnant-woman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=3826","title":{"rendered":"NY Times Sunday magazine feature &#8211; Breast cancer treatment during pregnancy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Great article!&#160;Prints out at nine pages.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2008\/08\/31\/magazine\/31cancer-t.html?_r=1&amp;th&amp;emc=th&amp;oref=slogin\"><font color=\"#800080\"><strong>With Child, With Cancer &#8211; NYTimes.com<\/strong><\/font><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote dir=\"ltr\" style=\"MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px\">\n<p><strong>LIZETTE IRVIN, HEAVILY PREGNANT<\/strong>, reclined on a hospital bed, relaxed, considering the circumstances. A bag of fluid dripped into her blood through an IV line as Irvin sucked on ice cubes, trying to pass the time. The ice helped to minimize the <a href=\"http:\/\/health.nytimes.com\/health\/guides\/symptoms\/taste-impaired\/overview.html?inline=nyt-classifier\" title=\"In-depth reference and news articles about Taste - impaired.\"><font color=\"#000066\">metallic taste<\/font><\/a> and heat in her mouth from 5-fluorouracil, an antimetabolite, which entered her bloodstream via a catheter inserted in her chest. It was June 16, Irvin\u2019s fourth round of <a href=\"http:\/\/topics.nytimes.com\/top\/news\/health\/diseasesconditionsandhealthtopics\/chemotherapy\/index.html?inline=nyt-classifier\" title=\"Recent and archival health news about chemotherapy.\"><font color=\"#000066\">chemotherapy<\/font><\/a>. She was 32 weeks pregnant and had <a href=\"http:\/\/health.nytimes.com\/health\/guides\/disease\/breast-cancer\/overview.html?inline=nyt-classifier\" title=\"In-depth reference and news articles about Breast cancer.\"><font color=\"#000066\">breast cancer<\/font><\/a>. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Great article!&#160;Prints out at nine pages. With Child, With Cancer &#8211; NYTimes.com LIZETTE IRVIN, HEAVILY PREGNANT, reclined on a hospital bed, relaxed, considering the circumstances. A bag of fluid dripped into her blood through an IV line as Irvin sucked on ice cubes, trying to pass the time. The ice helped to minimize the metallic [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3826","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-my-lymphoma-and-related-medical-stuff"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3826","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3826"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3826\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9240,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3826\/revisions\/9240"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}