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Metastases from carcinoma of mammary gland: An autopsy study
Author(s) -
Cifuentes Nestor,
Pickren John W.
Publication year - 1979
Publication title -
journal of surgical oncology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.201
H-Index - 111
eISSN - 1096-9098
pISSN - 0022-4790
DOI - 10.1002/jso.2930110303
Subject(s) - medicine , autopsy , mammary gland , metastasis , malignancy , cancer , carcinoma , pathology , mammary carcinoma , oncology , breast cancer
Information on metastases from carcinoma of the mammary gland in an autopsy study of 707 cases occurring in white women over a 15‐year period are presented and tabulated. Multiple primary cancers occurred in 19% of the cases. Of the 137 cases that exhibit more than one neoplastic malignancy, 31 (23%) were present in the contralateral mammary gland. Seventy patients had no metastasis from the mammary cancer at the time of death, and 55 of these patients had another cancer. Additional information has been added concerning the frequency of metastasis in parathyroid and thymus. When a parathyroid contains a metastasis, extensive metastases were noted in many organs and thus represents a late stage of the cancer.