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Spontaneous Regression of Pulmonary Metastases from Breast Angiosarcoma

Spontaneous regression of cancer is a rare phenomenon. We present a rare case of pulmonary metastases in a 72-year-old woman with metastatic breast angiosarcoma. She was diagnosed with a breast angiosarcoma in 2005 and underwent a total mastectomy and postoperative radiotherapy. Unfortunately, a yea...

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Autores principales: Kim, S. W., Wylie, J.
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2008
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2593410/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19081840
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2008/940656
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description Spontaneous regression of cancer is a rare phenomenon. We present a rare case of pulmonary metastases in a 72-year-old woman with metastatic breast angiosarcoma. She was diagnosed with a breast angiosarcoma in 2005 and underwent a total mastectomy and postoperative radiotherapy. Unfortunately, a year later she was found to have multiple lung and scalp metastases but in a view of her poor general fitness, she was not a candidate for chemotherapy and was kept on regular followup. Despite the absence of any treatment, the followup chest X-ray showed a significant reduction in the number and size of lung nodules and her scalp lesions regressed completely. Seven months after the diagnosis of metastatic disease, the nodules in her scalp remain controlled.
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spelling pubmed-25934102008-12-11 Spontaneous Regression of Pulmonary Metastases from Breast Angiosarcoma Kim, S. W. Wylie, J. Sarcoma Case Report Spontaneous regression of cancer is a rare phenomenon. We present a rare case of pulmonary metastases in a 72-year-old woman with metastatic breast angiosarcoma. She was diagnosed with a breast angiosarcoma in 2005 and underwent a total mastectomy and postoperative radiotherapy. Unfortunately, a year later she was found to have multiple lung and scalp metastases but in a view of her poor general fitness, she was not a candidate for chemotherapy and was kept on regular followup. Despite the absence of any treatment, the followup chest X-ray showed a significant reduction in the number and size of lung nodules and her scalp lesions regressed completely. Seven months after the diagnosis of metastatic disease, the nodules in her scalp remain controlled. Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2008 2008-12-03 /pmc/articles/PMC2593410/ /pubmed/19081840 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2008/940656 Text en Copyright © 2008 S. W. Kim and J. Wylie. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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title Spontaneous Regression of Pulmonary Metastases from Breast Angiosarcoma
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title_fullStr Spontaneous Regression of Pulmonary Metastases from Breast Angiosarcoma
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title_short Spontaneous Regression of Pulmonary Metastases from Breast Angiosarcoma
title_sort spontaneous regression of pulmonary metastases from breast angiosarcoma
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2593410/
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