title: [Two patients of recurrent breast cancer with carcinomatous pleurisy well controlled pleural effusion].
abstract: We report two patients of recurrent breast cancer with carcinomatous pleurisy well controlled pleural effusion. One patient is a 49-year-old woman. She underwent radical mastectomy for right breast cancer in September 1993. She suffered from multiple liver metastases in June 2000, so CEF therapy contained hepatic arterial infusion chemotherapy and extended right lobectomy of the liver were performed in December 2001. Right pleural effusion was detected in December 2003, then, pleurodesis was carried out with OK-432 after thoracic drainage. After pleurodesis, a weekly paclitaxel therapy was started and she was taking the regimen continuously. Another patient is a 55-year-old woman. She underwent radical mastectomy for left breast cancer in September 1999. Local recurrent lesions on the left chest and left pleural effusion were found in May 2003. After thoracic drainage, infectious pleurisy was complicated, so the drainage tube was removed after the therapy for preventing infection. After pleurodesis, CE therapy followed by peroral chemo-endocrine therapy was performed. Both of the two patients are receiving outpatient treatment without recurrent pleural effusion as of July 2005.
authors.affiliation: Dept. of Surgery, Saiseikai Senri Hospital.
authors.forename: Shigeyuki
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Hojo
authors.forename: Yoshiichi
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Maeura
authors.forename: Hiroki
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Fukunaga
authors.forename: Setsuko
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Yoshioka
authors.forename: Hirofumi
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Ota
authors.forename: Wakio
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Endo
authors.forename: Keiji
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Yamazaki
mesh_terms: D000970:Antineoplastic Agents / Q000627:therapeutic use; D000972:Antineoplastic Agents, Phytogenic / Q000627:therapeutic use; D000971:Antineoplastic Combined Chemotherapy Protocols / Q000627:therapeutic use; D001943:Breast Neoplasms; D004322:Drainage / Q000379:methods; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008875:Middle Aged; D009364:Neoplasm Recurrence, Local; D017239:Paclitaxel / Q000627:therapeutic use; D010844:Picibanil / Q000627:therapeutic use; D016066:Pleural Effusion, Malignant / Q000209:etiology / Q000628:therapy*; D010998:Pleurisy / Q000150:complications*
chemical_list: D000970:Antineoplastic Agents; D000972:Antineoplastic Agents, Phytogenic; D010844:Picibanil; D017239:Paclitaxel