to be if you look at the timings you have to be very if you look at the timings you have to be very quick off the mark to get your vaccine to be very quick off the mark to get your vaccine and obviously that was running your vaccine and obviously that was running down the ages and many pregnant running down the ages and many pregnant women are obviously young. there pregnant women are obviously young. there are pregnant women are obviously young. there are some good reasons why not everybody there are some good reasons why not everybody would have been vaccinated even by everybody would have been vaccinated even by this stage it with the recommendation in april. but you are absolutely recommendation in april. but you are absolutely right, what we are seeing is that absolutely right, what we are seeing is that for absolutely right, what we are seeing is that for very understandable reasons is that for very understandable reasons many pregnant women to have hesitancy
a-team, joins us now with perspective on what s going on here, since we can t determine the risk. well, i think, you know, listening to the way that the story is being told, it s not that pregnancy gives you cancer. what s happening is two things. we have better screening mechanisms for cancer than we ever had before, melanoma and breast cancer and now women having babies much later so as you look at rates of cancer in a nonpregnant population, let s say after 35, 40, you re going to find more cases of cancer. back in let s say 1997 you would see incidents of maybe a hundred cases of cancer, for every 100,000 women. now, it s coming close to 200 cases of cancer for 100,000 women. so, at the end of the day, i think it s just a combination of the, you know, the pregnancy population, you know, again getting pregnant later on and better screening and you know, doctors like myself, new high risk ob, i have a lot of patients that have either cancer