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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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