Radiation recall reaction with anastrozole treatment in breast cancer
| Autor: | Ayfer Haydaroglu, Fatma Sert, İdil Ünal, Ali Can Kazandi |
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| Rok vydání: | 2012 |
| Předmět: |
Oncology
Surgical margin medicine.medical_specialty medicine.diagnostic_test business.industry medicine.medical_treatment Estrogen receptor Anastrozole Cancer medicine.disease Radiation therapy Breast cancer Internal medicine medicine Hormonal therapy Mammography Radiology Nuclear Medicine and imaging Radiology business medicine.drug |
| Zdroj: | Practical radiation oncology. 2(4) |
| ISSN: | 1879-8519 |
| Popis: | Our case is a 68-year-old postmenopausal female patient with suspicion of cancer in the right breast. Cancer was detected by mammography. Partial mastectomy and axillary dissection (in physical examination she had palpable lymph nodes in right axillary) were performed in February 2010. Pathologic staging of the patient was pT2N0M0. Diagnosis was invasive ductal carcinoma, with the tumor 4.5 cm in size, located in the lower inner quadrant; cellular grade, 3; nuclear grade, 2; modified Bloom and Richardson grade, 2. None of the 24 axillary nodes displayed metastatic involvement. Surgical margin was 1 cm. In immunohistochemical analysis, it was reported that estrogen receptor was 20% (+2), progesterone receptor 40% (+3), p53 10%, c-erb B2 (-), and Ki 67 30%. Chemotherapy was not considered due to the patient's comorbidities (heart failure, diabetes mellitus) but radiotherapy, and afterward hormonal therapy regimens, were |
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