A case of delivery of healthy infant in breast cancer patient incidentally treated with goserelin acetate and tamoxifen during pregnancy.

In September 2000, a 32-year-old woman presented to our hospital with a right breast mass. In September 2000, she underwent pectoral muscle-preserving mastectomy for the treatment of right breast cancer. Pathologyy results revealed a mucinous carcinoma 27 × 20 × 18 mm in size accompanied by an extensive intraductal component. The tumor was staged as T2 N1M0 stage IIB and found to be estrogen receptor-positive, and 6 cycles of postoperative adjuvant chemotherapy consisting of 5-fluorouracil, epirubicin, and cyclophosphamide were carried out. Goserelin acetate plus tamoxifen was prescribed from April 2001 to March 2005. Since the patient received tamoxifen from April 2005 and eumenorrhea started in June 2006, goserelin acetate plus tamoxifen was started in August 2006. The patient was determined to be 25 weeks pregnant by abdominal ultrasonography in February 2007. This meant that she had been taking goserelin acetate plus tamoxifen for 6 months without realizing she was pregnant. She gave birth to a girl by cesarean section in May 2007. No abnormalities, including anomaly of the genitalia, were seen, and the subsequent growth of the infant was also satisfactory. We here report this case and a brief review of the literature.

[A case of drug-induced eosinophilic pneumonia due to tegafur-uracil(UFT®)].

A 68-year-old female received a left lower lobectomy for lung cancer (adenocarcinoma, pT2N1M0, stage II B). She had a postoperative bronchial fistula that was treated conservatively and cured. Two months after the operation, tegafur-uracil (UFT) 300 mg/day was initiated.She felt dyspnea on exertion after taking UFT for two weeks, and some infiltration shadows were observed on a chest X-ray two weeks later. A chest CT scan revealed unsegmental infiltration shadows at the intermediate areas of the right middle and lower lobes, and an air-bronchogram was observed inside of the shadows. A bronchoscopy was performed. Bronchoalveolar lavage revealed a high fraction rate of eosinophil(24%), and a transbronchial lung biopsy revealed infiltrations of lymphocytes, eosinophils and neutrophils into the intra-alveolar space. However, fibrosis of the alveolar wall was not observed. A drug-induced lymphocyte stimulation test was performed for UFT, resulting positive. She was diagnosed as drug-induced eosinopilic pneumonia due to UFT. After she discontinued UFT and started 30 mg/day of prednisolone, dyspnea and infiltrations on chest X-ray disappeared.

[Pulmonary mucosa-associated lymphoid tissue (MALT) lymphoma accompanied with cystic change].

A 64-year-old male with throat discomfort visited our hospital, and a chest computed tomography (CT) scan revealed a cystic lesion with a central solid component in the right lung (in the lower lobe, 4.1 x 3.9 cm in diameter). Transbronchial lung biopsy was performed and the lesion was diagnosed as mucosa-associated lymphoid tissue (MALT) lymphoma of the lung. No other lymphoma lesion was detected and it was diagnosed as the stage I-E, and a right lower lobectomy was performed. The cystic lesion derived from alveolus and bronchus destroyed by lymphoma infiltration and it might be caused by air retention due to check-valve mechanism.