Open AccessMolecularly Confirmed Female Donor-Transmitted Lobular Breast Cancer to Male following Renal Transplantation
Author(s) -
Jonah M. Cooper,
Benzion Samueli,
Elad Mazor,
Waleed Kian,
Hadar Goldvaser,
Gal Ben-Arie
Publication year - 2022
Publication title -
pathobiology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.941
H-Index - 53
eISSN - 1423-0291
pISSN - 1015-2008
DOI - 10.1159/000524479
Subject(s) - medicine , transplantation , lobular carcinoma , malignancy , breast cancer , male breast cancer , cancer , pathology , ductal carcinoma , nephrectomy , kidney , oncology
Lobular breast cancer represents 10%-15% of breast cancers in women but is virtually nonexistent in men, related to the typical absence of the anatomic breast lobule structure in male breast tissue. We describe donor-transmitted metastatic lobular carcinoma to a male after kidney transplantation. Determining whether a post-transplant cancer is transplant associated, donor transmitted, or donor derived is significant for treatment, prognosis, and possibly management of other organ recipients.