Metastasis to paranasal sinuses and orbita of breast cancer with a rare metachronous tumor of the uterine cervix.
Breast cancer metastases are rarely seen in paranasal sinuses or orbit with a poor prognosis, and these cases were published as case reports. Moreover, metachronous tumors following breast cancer diagnosis are somewhat common, but uterine cervix is infrequent in them. In the present case, we report a 61-year-old female patient who had a biopsy-proven metastatic breast cancer to paranasal sinuses and orbita. She also had a cervical uterine cancer which is also unusually diagnosed following breast cancer. Palliative radiotherapy to paranasal sinuses (30 Gy) achieved a good response. However, she died due to leptomeningeal progression.
Department of Radiation Oncology, Division of Medical Oncology, School of Medicine, Marmara University, Istanbul, Turkey. bmatasoy@yahoo.com
Beste M
BM
Atasoy
Ilknur Alsan
IA
Cetin
Suheyla Uyar
SU
Bozkurt
Nazim Serdar
NS
Turhal
D001706:Biopsy; D001943:Breast Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology* / Q000628:therapy; D002294:Carcinoma, Squamous Cell / Q000473:pathology* / Q000628:therapy; D003131:Combined Modality Therapy; D018450:Disease Progression; D017809:Fatal Outcome; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008875:Middle Aged; D009367:Neoplasm Staging; D016609:Neoplasms, Second Primary / Q000473:pathology* / Q000628:therapy; D009918:Orbital Neoplasms / Q000556:secondary* / Q000628:therapy; D010255:Paranasal Sinus Neoplasms / Q000532:radiotherapy / Q000556:secondary*; D002583:Uterine Cervical Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology* / Q000628:therapy