Inflammatory Breast Cancer

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, ...

Trastuzumab in inflammatory breast cancer.

Inflammatory Breast Cancer from Metastatic Ovarian Cancer

Metastases to the breast from tumors other than breast carcinomas are extremely rare and represent only 0.2-1.3% of all diagnosed malignant breast tumors. Furthermore, while the most common sites for advanced ovarian cancer metastases are the liver, lung, and pleura, metastasis to the breast from a primary ovarian cancer is uncommon and has only been reported in 0.03-0.6% of all breast cancers....

Survival of inflammatory breast cancer patients compared to non-inflammatory breast cancer patients in Egypt.

To the Editor: Inflammatory Breast Cancer (IBC) is a rare but aggressive form of breast cancer that is diagnosed clinically (1). IBC has characteristic clinical and biologic features suggestive of differences between IBC and non-IBC. Egypt has about a five times higher proportion of IBC patients than the USA (2–4) with distinct molecular features of IBC tumors that may reflect a more aggressive...