Burkitt's lymphoma successfully treated in pregnancy

Neoplastic diseases affect about 1:1000 women during pregnancy.1 This incidence varies according to region, age and the presence or absence of pre-invasive diseases.2 Lymphoma is the fourth most diagnosed cancer in this period, behind breast tumors, cervical cancer and melanoma.3 Its frequency has risen with the tendency in modern society of postponing pregnancy.4 The most common lymphoma in pregnant patients is Hodgkin’s lymphoma, since its incidence spike coincides with the female fertile age. Any link between non-Hodgkin lymphoma and pregnancy has still not been elucidated, with few case reports being found in the medical literature worldwide.3,4 Burkitt’s lymphoma is a very aggressive germinal B-cell lymphoma, frequently presenting extranodal sites. It is the second most common lymphoma in children, but it is very rare in adults. Three clinical variants are known: endemic, sporadic and immunodefficiency-related.5