Inflammatory breast cancer clusters: A hypothesis

Inflammatory breast cancer clusters: A hypothesis.

Cancer clusters have long been a focus of interest because of the possibility of identifying etiologic agents. Only on rare occasions, however, have such cluster investigations been successful. One major difficulty in cluster investigations, particularly in the area of breast cancer, is the long latent period. There have been a number of publications providing a discouraging picture regarding c...

Inflammatory breast cancer.

The very original definition of carcinomatous mastitis suggests the main diagnostic difficulty of this onchologic condition. Actually it is more correctly appointed as inflammatory breast cancer, because notwithstanding the inflammatory appearance, it is a true systemic breast cancer, for which surgery represents an only marginal treatment resource. If is now well known that radical mastectomy ...

Inflammatory breast cancer.

To cite: Trikalinos NA, Yared J. BMJ Case Rep Published online: [please include Day Month Year] doi:10.1136/bcr-2013009029 DESCRIPTION A 55-year-old woman presented with a few months’ complaints of weight loss, fatigue, shortness of breath and a rapidly growing right breast mass. She had no family history of breast cancer. Physical examination showed a cachectic patient with a firm, indurated, ...

Inflammatory Breast Cancer: A Complex Disease

The recognition of the existence of an aggressive, lethal subtype of breast cancer known as inflammatory breast cancer (IBC) dates back to 1924, when the first comprehensive assessment of IBC, based on a series of 28 patients, was presented by Lee and Tannenbaum.[1] However, the disease is rare, accounting for approximately 2.5% of all newly diagnosed breast cancers in the United States,[2] and...

Trastuzumab in inflammatory breast cancer.