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Metastasis to the Male Breast from Squamous Cell Lung Carcinoma
Author(s) -
Berhan Genç,
Aynur Solak,
Neslın Şahin,
Aşkın Gülşen
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
case reports in oncological medicine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.173
H-Index - 7
eISSN - 2090-6714
pISSN - 2090-6706
DOI - 10.1155/2013/593970
Subject(s) - medicine , breast cancer , metastasis , lung , lung cancer , oncology , melanoma , pathology , cancer , radiology , cancer research
Metastasis to breast from extra mammarian organs is quite rare with an incidence of 0.5–3%. Malignancies that most commonly metastasize to breast are lymphomas, leukemias, and malignant melanoma. Metastasis of lung cancer to breast is a very rare condition. We present here a case with squamous cell lung cancer that metastasized to breast. A 65-year-old man presented with cough in addition to a mass in the left breast, which had been noted 3 weeks ago and grown gradually since then. A histopathological diagnosis of metastasis of squamous lung cancer was made for the mass in the left breast. PET/CT scan showed no distant metastasis. Chemoradiation therapy was applied for lung cancer. As the prognosis of such patients is extremely poor, it is of a great importance to distinguish a primary breast cancer from a metastatic breast lesion in order to determine the appropriate treatment modality.

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