Umbilical metastasis from breast cancer related with tumor marker elevation.
We describe a 53-year-old woman with tumor marker abnormality caused by an umbilical metastasis from breast cancer. She had undergone breast conservation therapy (BCT) for breast cancer (T2N1M0) 9 years previously. Umbilical metastasis was detected 9 months after tumor marker elevation was first noted. After resection of the umbilical metastasis, tumor marker level decreased immediately and normalized. The patient is alive without other metastasis.
Murata
Yoriko
Y
Department of Radiology, Program of Tumor Biology and Regulation, Kochi Medical School, Kochi University, Japan.
Ogawa
Yasuhiro
Y
Yamawaki
Yoko
Y
Kohsaki
Shino
S
Kubota
Kei
K
Nishioka
Akihiko
A
Yoshida
Shoji
S
Tochika
Naoshige
N
D000008:Abdominal Neoplasms / Q000097:blood / Q000556:secondary*; D000230:Adenocarcinoma / Q000097:blood / Q000556:secondary*; D014408:Biomarkers, Tumor / Q000097:blood*; D001943:Breast Neoplasms / Q000097:blood / Q000473:pathology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008875:Middle Aged; D014472:Umbilicus / Q000473:pathology*
D014408:Biomarkers, Tumor