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A Case of Double Cancer: A Squamous Cell Carcinoma Arising from a Long Pierced Site on the Left Earlobe and a Solid Tubular Carcinoma of the Left Breast
Author(s) -
Hagiwara Keisuke,
Shinzato Rimi,
Higa Tadashi,
Toyama Kensei,
Miyazato Hajime,
aka Shigeo
Publication year - 1994
Publication title -
the journal of dermatology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.9
H-Index - 65
eISSN - 1346-8138
pISSN - 0385-2407
DOI - 10.1111/j.1346-8138.1994.tb01813.x
Subject(s) - medicine , radiation therapy , earlobe , neck dissection , quadrantectomy , metastasis , carcinoma , surgery , lesion , cancer , breast cancer , radiology , pathology , mastectomy
A 43‐year‐old woman presented with a well differentiated squamous cell carcinoma of the left earlobe where a small hole for pierced type earrings had been made about 20 years earlier. A year after the removal of the tumor, a metastasis of a moderately differentiated squamous cell carcinoma to the left cervical lymph nodes was detected. A month later, a solid tubular carcinoma of the left breast was found. A modified radical neck dissection and a quadrantectomy with an axillary lymph node dissection were performed. A total of 5 courses of peplomycine‐mitomycine combinated therapy with 26 Gy of radiotherapy was administered for the cervical lesion. A month of postoperative chemotherapy with tegafur‐uracil and medroxyprogesterone acetate and a total of 56 Gy of radiotherapy to the mammary lesion were added. She has been well without recurrence for about a year after the operations. This case is not only a rare double cancer, a combination of a squamous cell carcinoma and a solid tubular carcinoma, but may also be the first case of a squamous cell carcinoma arising at a long pierced site on an earlobe for pierced type earrings.