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https://doi.org/10.20471/LO.2018.46.02-03.20
Rare metastasis of breast cancer to mandible - a case report
Franjo Cmrečak
; Division of Radiotherapy and Medical Oncology, University Hospital for Tumors, Sestre milosrdnice University Hospital Center, Zagreb, Croatia
Zrinka Rendić-Miočević
; Division of Radiotherapy and Medical Oncology, University Hospital for Tumors, Sestre milosrdnice University Hospital Center, Zagreb, Croatia
Lidija Beketić-Orešković
; Division of Radiotherapy and Medical Oncology, University Hospital for Tumors, Sestre milosrdnice University Hospital Center, Zagreb, Croatia; Department of Clinical Oncology, School of Medicine, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia
Abstract
Breast cancer is the most common cancer in the female population. In Croatia, breast cancer makes up to 26% of all newly diagnosed cases of cancer in females. Breast cancer primarily metastasizes to bones, lungs, liver, brain and lymph nodes. We report a case of isolated metastasis of breast cancer to mandible in a 76-year-old female patient, who was diagnosed with cancer eleven years ago, which presented with difficult chewing, discrete pain, and continuing increase in tumor marker Ca15-3. Pathohistology of intraoral biopsy confirmed a breast cancer metastasis. The patient received with palliative radiotherapy and hormone therapy. Every oncological patient complaining about the disorders in the mandibular area must be subject to thorough examination and metastasis should be included in the differential diagnosis. Metastatic lesion in the mandible is a sign of disseminated disease, and the treatment is most often palliative.
Keywords
breast cancer; metastasis; palliative radiotherapy
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217813
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Publication date:
29.1.2019.
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