title: Massive cavitation of solid pulmonary metastatic lesions in a breast cancer patient: a case report.
abstract: A 40-year-old female with metastatic breast cancer developed multiple lung nodules some of them with cavitations. Following treatment with Taxol/Herceptin most of the lesions disappeared and in many cavity lesions appeared. There was no further change in the appearance of lung lesions.
authors.affiliation: Department of Oncology, Soroka University Medical Center, Faculty of Health Sciences, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer Sheva, Israel. wilmosh@bgumail.bgu.ac.il
authors.forename: W
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Mermershtain
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Schulman
authors.forename: Y
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Hertzanu
authors.forename: Y
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Cohen
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001943:Breast Neoplasms / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000473:pathology* / Q000601:surgery; D000077143:Docetaxel; D019008:Drug Resistance, Neoplasm; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008168:Lung / Q000473:pathology*; D008175:Lung Neoplasms / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000473:pathology* / Q000556:secondary*; D017239:Paclitaxel / Q000031:analogs & derivatives* / Q000627:therapeutic use; D043823:Taxoids
chemical_list: D043823:Taxoids; D000077143:Docetaxel; D017239:Paclitaxel