Isolated breast metastasis mimicking as second primary cancer - a case report

Abstract

Primary carcinoma of breast is common but breast is a rare site of metastasis and metastases from extramammary sites are even rarer. Metastasis to breast from rectal carcinoma is very unusual and till now 19 cases of breast secondaries from colorectal carcinoma have been reported in literature which include 14 cases where the primary site was colon and remaining 5 were from the rectum. Here the authors report a case of adenocarcinoma anorectum who had completed treatment and after 4 months developed a lump in her left breast which was metastatic. Metastatic lesions of breast are usually part of a widely disseminated disease but this case presented as a solitary breast metastasis which mimicked as second primary cancer of the breast.

Keywords

Isolated breast metastasis / second primary carcinoma of breast / carcinoma anorectum

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