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A search of PubMed for papers discussing cancer and pregnancy produced 88,264 hits, of which 13,565 were published in or after 2020. In 2022, a paper on the epidemiology of cancer in pregnancy found that it occurred in approximately one in 1,000 pregnancies, which would be more than 500 cases a year in England. Of course, not all these cancers would be terminal; although, if terminal illnesses included treatable illnesses where treatment is refused, it could be a larger proportion. Of course, we do not know until a pregnant woman is given a diagnosis what treatment she may choose to have or not have. We know that cases can be aggressive due to hormonal changes.