[A case of long surviving inflammatory breast cancer with bone metastasis, treated by intra-arterial infusion chemotherapy followed by extended mastectomy].
Since there is no established therapeutic strategy in the treatment of stage IV breast cancers and there are cases with bone metastases from the breast showing long survival, the authors usually perform due local control in cases with bone metastases. The present case is an inflammatory carcinoma of the breast with bone metastasis for which doxorubicin hydrochloride was administered via the subclavian and internal thoracic arteries followed by extended mastectomy. The patient is being treated with tamoxifen citrate and doxifluridine and shows no other metastasis at this writing, four years and seven months after the mastectomy. Bone scintigraphy of the patient indicated disappearance of the bone metastases. Since there are long surviving cases among those with a poor prognosis involving inflammatory breast cancer with concomitant bone metastasis, it is necessary to treat cases with locally advanced breast cancer by preoperative intraarterial infusion together with mastectomy, ie, sufficient local control.
Takeshita
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Dept. of Surgery, Yamato City Hospital.
Masuyama
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H
Shimizu
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Tanahasi
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Suzuki
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Toyama
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D001859:Bone Neoplasms / Q000556:secondary*; D001943:Breast Neoplasms / Q000188:drug therapy* / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery; D017024:Chemotherapy, Adjuvant; D004317:Doxorubicin / Q000008:administration & dosage*; D005260:Female; D005467:Floxuridine / Q000008:administration & dosage; D006801:Humans; D007261:Infusions, Intra-Arterial; D015410:Mastectomy, Extended Radical; D008875:Middle Aged; D011379:Prognosis; D013348:Subclavian Artery; D013629:Tamoxifen / Q000008:administration & dosage; D013895:Thoracic Arteries
D005467:Floxuridine; D013629:Tamoxifen; D004317:Doxorubicin; C025034:doxifluridine