Retrospective Analysis of Patients with Synchronous Primary Breast and Thyroid Carcinoma
Author(s) -
İlker Murat Arer,
Hakan Yabanoğlu,
Murat Kuş,
Aydıncan Akdur,
Tevfik Avcı
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
meme sağlığı dergisi/meme sağlığı dergisi
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1306-0953
pISSN - 1306-0945
DOI - 10.5152/ejbh.2018.3853
Subject(s) - medicine , breast cancer , thyroid , malignancy , thyroid cancer , breast carcinoma , thyroidectomy , mastectomy , radiation therapy , radiology , cancer , thyroid carcinoma , retrospective cohort study , oncology
Breast and thyroid cancers are commonly encountered malignancies. Increased risk of breast cancer in follow-up period of thyroid cancer or vice versa has been reported. However, they have some associations, synchronous presentation of these tumors is rare. We presented 12 patients diagnosed as breast and thyroid cancer and treated at the same time.
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