[A Case of Late Recurrence of Breast Cancer with Chest Wall Recurrence 43 Years after Surgery]

Gan To Kagaku Ryoho. 2021 Dec;48(13):1846-1848.
[Article in Japanese]

Abstract

The patient is an 85-year-old female who had previously undergone a mastectomy for right breast cancer at the age of 42 years. In September 2020, she visited our hospital with a chief complaint of a chest wall tumor. Physical examination revealed a 3×3 cm ulcerative lesion on the right side of the center chest wall. She underwent a skin biopsy of the tumor under local anesthesia and was diagnosed with a recurrence of right breast cancer(ER positive, PR positive, HER2 negative). PET-CT revealed localized skin thickening on the right side of the sternum and FDG accumulation in the same area, with no other findings suggestive of distant metastasis. Treatment was started with anastrozole and is still ongoing. In this article, we report a very rare case of recurrence 43 years after surgery.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Adult
  • Aged, 80 and over
  • Anastrozole
  • Breast Neoplasms* / drug therapy
  • Breast Neoplasms* / surgery
  • Female
  • Humans
  • Mastectomy
  • Neoplasm Recurrence, Local / drug therapy
  • Neoplasm Recurrence, Local / surgery
  • Positron Emission Tomography Computed Tomography
  • Thoracic Wall* / surgery

Substances

  • Anastrozole