K risten Toffales, 28 weeks pregnant with her first child, sat in her car outside her oncologist's office in Port Jefferson Station, gripping her steering wheel. Her baby kicking inside her reminded her to breathe as she had what she called "a full-on panic attack."

Her doctor had just told her she was to have one round of chemotherapy to try to stop breast cancer from spreading inside her so they could get the baby to 37 weeks gestation and deliver early.

"The concept of having chemotherapy while pregnant was horrendous to me," says Toffales, now 37 and a Realtor from Port Jefferson.

That day last year wasn't the first time during her cancer journey that Toffales thought: "I'm pregnant. This can't be happening."

But it can.

Breast cancer is the most common cancer found during pregn

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