title: Breast cancer metastases to the pancreas.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  The pancreas can serve as the destination for metastatic spread of malignancies from multiple organ sites. Breast cancer metastases to the pancreas are part of this spectrum and surgeons evaluate such patients as part of their practice. Uniform clinical guidelines for these cases do not exist and care is primarily driven by the personal experience of the treating surgeon.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  We present two patients with breast cancer metastases to their pancreas and review their workup and clinical management in light of our experience and the existing published literature. We propose that metastatic disease to the pancreas has to remain in the differential diagnosis for any patient with a new pancreatic mass and prior cancer history. Surgical resection is a viable treatment option for patients with isolated metastatic disease to the pancreas if the underlying biology of the metastatic tumor is favorable.
authors.affiliation: Department of Surgery, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA.
authors.forename: Filip
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Bednar
authors.forename: James M
authors.initials: JM
authors.lastname: Scheiman
authors.forename: Barbara J
authors.initials: BJ
authors.lastname: McKenna
authors.forename: Diane M
authors.initials: DM
authors.lastname: Simeone
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D001943:Breast Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000473:pathology* / Q000601:surgery; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008875:Middle Aged; D010179:Pancreas; D010190:Pancreatic Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000556:secondary* / Q000601:surgery
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