[Bone Marrow Carcinomatosis with Disseminated Intravascular Coagulation in a Breast Cancer Patient Treated with Chemotherapy and CDK4/6 Inhibitor]

Gan To Kagaku Ryoho. 2023 Dec;50(12):1331-1333.
[Article in Japanese]

Abstract

We report a case of a breast cancer patient with bone marrow carcinomatosis and disseminated intravascular coagulation who was treated with chemotherapy and a CDK4/6 inhibitor. The patients, a 68-year-old woman, presented to our hospital with anorexia and was found to have multiple liver metastases of breast cancer. Furthermore, she had anemia and thrombocytopenia, and a bone marrow biopsy showed bone metastasis of the breast cancer. Therefore, a diagnosis of bone marrow carcinomatosis and disseminated intravascular coagulation was made. Treatment was started with chemotherapy(epirubicin and cyclophosphamide)and subsequently changed to an aromatase inhibitor(letrozole)and a CDK4/4 inhibitor(abemaciclib) and was maintained without exacerbation of the patient's condition.

Publication types

  • Case Reports
  • English Abstract

MeSH terms

  • Aged
  • Bone Marrow
  • Breast
  • Breast Neoplasms* / complications
  • Breast Neoplasms* / drug therapy
  • Carcinoma*
  • Cyclin-Dependent Kinase 4
  • Disseminated Intravascular Coagulation* / etiology
  • Female
  • Humans
  • Peritoneal Neoplasms*

Substances

  • CDK4 protein, human
  • Cyclin-Dependent Kinase 4