The Dilemma of Breast Cancer Treatment and Existing Collagen Vascular Disease: A Case of Scleroderma and Review of the Literature
| Autor: | James Herman, Deimante Tamkus, Luciano DiCarlo, Harvey L. Bumpers, Nicole M. Zaremba, Mersadies R Martin |
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| Rok vydání: | 2016 |
| Předmět: |
Oncology
medicine.medical_specialty business.industry medicine.medical_treatment Cancer medicine.disease Scleroderma 030218 nuclear medicine & medical imaging Radiation therapy 03 medical and health sciences Therapeutic approach 0302 clinical medicine Breast cancer 030220 oncology & carcinogenesis Collagen vascular disease Internal medicine Internal Medicine medicine Surgery Stage (cooking) skin and connective tissue diseases business Contraindication |
| Zdroj: | The Breast Journal. 22:451-455 |
| ISSN: | 1075-122X |
| Popis: | Collagen vascular diseases present a treatment dilemma for patients with breast cancer. Due to the potential for severe, acute, and late complications of radiation therapy, a history of collagen vascular disease (CVD) is a relative contraindication to breast-conserving treatment. We present a case of early stage breast cancer in a patient with severe scleroderma treated with breast-conserving surgery without radiation and a brief review of the published literature regarding the therapeutic approach to the patient with CVD and breast cancer. |
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