Pregnancy and Cancer: Between Eros and Thanatos -The illustration of a clinical case

Abstract

Cancer shakes everyone's subjective and Professional identity, and sometimes gives rise to very strong psychic movements: fascination, horror, pity. But what about when maternal cancer is diagnosed during pregnancy? When the time of motherhood intersects that of cancer? How to think about life and death at the same time? The discovery of cancer during pregnancy is a real trauma that arouses intense and contrasting emotions, the idea of death arises as a woman is about to give birth. Through a clinical vignette, we will retrace the psycho-oncological dimension and the suffering of a woman who is confronted with this collusion of life and death, with an illusion of a possible choice, to interrupt the life of a healthy fetus for give yourself a better chance of survival when keeping it can lead to death.