A Case of Carcinocythemia: De Novo Hormone Receptor-positive Metastatic Breast Cancer Presenting With Circulating Tumor Cells Mimicking an Acute Leukemia

Clin Breast Cancer. 2018 Jun;18(3):e295-e298. doi: 10.1016/j.clbc.2017.06.013. Epub 2017 Jul 4.

Authors

Roberto S Fratamico¹, Kimberly S Strickland², Guldeep Uppal³, Maysa Abu-Khalaf²

Affiliations

¹ Department of Medical Oncology, Sidney Kimmel Cancer Center, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, PA. Electronic address: roberto.fratamico@jefferson.edu.
² Department of Medical Oncology, Sidney Kimmel Cancer Center, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, PA.
³ Division of Hematopathology, Department of Pathology, Anatomy and Cell Biology, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, PA.

PMID: 28735676
DOI: 10.1016/j.clbc.2017.06.013

No abstract available

Keywords: Breast cancer; Carcinocythemia; Circulating tumor cells; Hormone receptor positive; Leukoerythroblastosis.

Publication types

Case Reports

MeSH terms

Aged
Biopsy
Blood Cell Count
Bone Marrow / pathology
Breast / diagnostic imaging
Breast / pathology
Breast Neoplasms / blood
Breast Neoplasms / diagnosis*
Breast Neoplasms / pathology
Diagnosis, Differential
Female
GATA3 Transcription Factor / analysis
Humans
Leukemia, Promyelocytic, Acute / blood
Leukemia, Promyelocytic, Acute / diagnosis*
Leukemia, Promyelocytic, Acute / pathology
Mammography
Neoplastic Cells, Circulating / pathology*

Substances

GATA3 Transcription Factor
GATA3 protein, human