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BACKGROUND: Malignant phyllodes tumors (PTs) of the breast occur infrequently and are difficult to treat with adjuvant therapy. Here, we present a case of a female patient with a huge malignant PT with rapid progression in a short period. CASE PRESENTATION: A 44-year-old woman presented to our hospital with a rapid growth mass in her right breast, measuring 20 cm. She was initially diagnosed as having a borderline phyllodes tumor by core needle biopsy and underwent total mastectomy and artificial dermis was grafted, 20 days later, latissimus dorsi muscle flap and free skin grafting were performed. Two courses of doxorubicin-ifosfamide therapy were administered because of recurrence, but the patient died 4 months after the mastectomy. CONCLUSIONS: A standard therapeutic strategy for malignant PTs is needed in urgently to reduce the risk of tumor recurrence.
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The aim of the present study was to construct the intra-operative prediction model of non-sentinel lymph node (non-SLN) metastasis in breast cancer patients with SLN metastasis using one-step nucleic acid amplification (OSNA). Of 833 breast cancer patients (T1-T2, N0) who underwent SLN biopsy and had their SLNs examined intra-operatively with the OSNA assay, 161 with SLN metastasis and treated with completion axillary lymph node dissection (cALND) were randomly divided into a training (n = 81) and a validation (n = 80) cohort. Non-SLN metastasis of the training cohort was associated with the number of positive SLNs (P = 0.001), CK19 mRNA copy number (P = 0.001), and clinical tumor size (P = 0.055). These parameters were used to construct the intra-operative prediction model of non-SLN metastasis. Its diagnostic accuracy (AUC of ROC curve) was 0.809 and 0.704 for the training and validation cohorts, respectively. The intra-operative prediction model using OSNA may have a diagnostic accuracy of non-SLN metastasis comparable to that of the conventional, post-operative prediction model, indicating that it might help decide the indication for cALND.
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Biomarcadores Tumorais/metabolismo , Neoplasias da Mama/patologia , Carcinoma Ductal de Mama/patologia , Carcinoma Intraductal não Infiltrante/patologia , Carcinoma Lobular/patologia , Cuidados Intraoperatórios/métodos , Técnicas de Amplificação de Ácido Nucleico/métodos , Axila , Neoplasias da Mama/metabolismo , Neoplasias da Mama/cirurgia , Carcinoma Ductal de Mama/metabolismo , Carcinoma Ductal de Mama/cirurgia , Carcinoma Intraductal não Infiltrante/metabolismo , Carcinoma Intraductal não Infiltrante/cirurgia , Carcinoma Lobular/metabolismo , Carcinoma Lobular/cirurgia , Técnicas de Apoio para a Decisão , Feminino , Humanos , Queratina-19/metabolismo , Modelos Logísticos , Excisão de Linfonodo , Metástase Linfática , Curva ROC , Estudos Retrospectivos , Biópsia de Linfonodo Sentinela , Carga TumoralRESUMO
A woman in her sixties underwent total gastrectomy for gastric cancer. The pathological diagnosis was pT3, pN3, sH0, pCY0, sP0, sM0, fStage IV. Chemotherapy with S-1 was used after surgical treatment. Because a CT scan after three courses chemotherapy showed the paraaortic lymph nodes swelling, combination chemotherapy with S-1 and docetaxel was used as a second-line chemotherapy. When the CT scan after 8 courses of this combination chemotherapy revealed multiple liver metastases, the chemotherapy was changed to CPT-11 monotherapy and paclitaxel monotherapy as the third-and fourth-line chemotherapy, respectively. In spite of those chemotherapies, the metastatic disease progressed, and therefore, combination chemotherapy with S-1 and CDDP was used as the fifth-line chemotherapy. After 6 courses of this treatment, serum CEA and CA19-9 levels dropped into the normal range. Multiple liver metastases were markedly reduced, and were considered as a partial response(PR). The patient is still alive, maintaining the effect of PR for 17 months without any adverse effects except appetite loss and vomiting of grade 2.
