PMID: 32157067Mar 12, 2020Paper

Surgical Resection of a Solitary Pulmonary Nodule in a Patient with Breast Cancer-A Case Report

Gan to kagaku ryoho. Cancer & chemotherapy
Yuki HiraiDaisuke Ozaki

Abstract

Solitary lung tumors after radical surgery for breast cancer often present difficulty in diagnosis and treatment. This report describes the case of a patient with a previous history of radicalsurgery for breast cancer who underwent lung surgery. Solitary pulmonary nodules should be diagnosed in patients with breast cancer, because treatments and prognoses differ between metastatic and primary tumors. At the age of 43 years, this patient underwent surgicaltreatment for breast cancer. Eighteen years later, a solitary mass was observed in the middle lobe of the right lung. Right middle lobectomy was performed using video-assisted thoracic surgery. The diagnosis was primary lung carcinoma. In case of primary lung carcinoma, radical treatment is possible through surgical resection. On the contrary, breast cancer metastasis has been known to have subtypes with characteristics that may often be different from those of the originall esions; therefore, surgicalresection helps in the reevaluation of receptor expression. Thus, early pathological diagnosis using surgical resection is useful for early diagnosis and treatment.

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