| Turkish Journal of Cancer |
| 2007, Volume 37, Number 1, Page(s) 027-030 |
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| Breast and ovarian carcinoma in the same patient, metastasis or dual primaries? |
| CEM BAYKAL1,2, GÖKHAN TULUNAY2, AHMET ÖZFUTTU3, IAN JACOBS4, CHARLES A MEIN4, TÜRKAN KÜÇÜKALİ5, AYŞE AYHAN4,5 |
1Yeditepe University School of Medicine, Department of Obstetrics & Gynecology, Istanbul-Turkey 2SSK Etlik Maternity Hospital, Departments of Gynecologic Oncology, Ankara-Turkey 3SSK Etlik Maternity Hospital, Departments of Pathology, Ankara-Turkey 4St Bartholomew’s and The Royal London School of Medicine and Dentistry, Gynecologic Oncology Research Unit, Queen Mary Westfield, University of London, London-United Kingdom 5Hacettepe University School of Medicine, Department of Pathology, Ankara-Turkey |
Metastases to breast from extramammary primaries are
very rare events. These lesions differ from primary breast
carcinomas and they are known to have poor prognosis.
Discrimination between metastatic tumors and primary
breast carcinomas are usually done by clinical and pathological
evaluation including immunohistochemistry. Here
we report an unusual case of ovarian epithelial carcinoma
which was initially diagnosed as to give metastasis to breast
17 months later than the first diagnosis of ovarian carcinoma.
Clonality evaluation revealed that breast and ovarian tumors
were metachronous dual primaries. [Turk J Cancer
2007;37(1):27-30]
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