A rare case of a phyllodes tumour of the breast converting to a fibrosarcoma with successful treatment

A phyllodes tumour of the breast converting to fibrosarcoma of the breast is a rare entity. Prognosis of fibrosarcoma of the breast is poor and the role of various treatment modalities is not clearly defined due to the rarity of the disease. One such case, which was treated successfully with a combi...

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Autores principales: Pant, NK, Singh, A, Kumar, D, Pandey, H
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cancer Intelligence 2012
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3324272/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22518198
http://dx.doi.org/10.3332/ecancer.2012.247
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description A phyllodes tumour of the breast converting to fibrosarcoma of the breast is a rare entity. Prognosis of fibrosarcoma of the breast is poor and the role of various treatment modalities is not clearly defined due to the rarity of the disease. One such case, which was treated successfully with a combination of surgery, radiotherapy and chemotherapy, is presented here.
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spelling pubmed-33242722012-04-19 A rare case of a phyllodes tumour of the breast converting to a fibrosarcoma with successful treatment Pant, NK Singh, A Kumar, D Pandey, H Ecancermedicalscience Case Report A phyllodes tumour of the breast converting to fibrosarcoma of the breast is a rare entity. Prognosis of fibrosarcoma of the breast is poor and the role of various treatment modalities is not clearly defined due to the rarity of the disease. One such case, which was treated successfully with a combination of surgery, radiotherapy and chemotherapy, is presented here. Cancer Intelligence 2012-03-13 /pmc/articles/PMC3324272/ /pubmed/22518198 http://dx.doi.org/10.3332/ecancer.2012.247 Text en © the authors; licensee ecancermedicalscience. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Pant, NK
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Kumar, D
Pandey, H
A rare case of a phyllodes tumour of the breast converting to a fibrosarcoma with successful treatment
title A rare case of a phyllodes tumour of the breast converting to a fibrosarcoma with successful treatment
title_full A rare case of a phyllodes tumour of the breast converting to a fibrosarcoma with successful treatment
title_fullStr A rare case of a phyllodes tumour of the breast converting to a fibrosarcoma with successful treatment
title_full_unstemmed A rare case of a phyllodes tumour of the breast converting to a fibrosarcoma with successful treatment
title_short A rare case of a phyllodes tumour of the breast converting to a fibrosarcoma with successful treatment
title_sort rare case of a phyllodes tumour of the breast converting to a fibrosarcoma with successful treatment
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3324272/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22518198
http://dx.doi.org/10.3332/ecancer.2012.247
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