title: Surgical management of ovarian carcinoma metastatic to the breast and axilla: A role for metastasectomy?
abstract: As patients with ovarian cancer are living longer, surgeons will be faced with the management of metastatic lesions amenable to resection more frequently. We present two patients with ovarian cancer metastatic to the breast who underwent resection for their metastases, but their outcomes differed significantly. After reviewing the literature, we propose that there can be definite benefit to resection in the appropriately selected patients and discuss factors to consider prior to proceeding with surgery.
authors.affiliation: Department of Surgery, The Wexner Medical Center at The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio.
authors.forename: Kara K
authors.initials: KK
authors.lastname: Rossfeld
authors.affiliation: Department of Surgery, The Wexner Medical Center at The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio.|Division of Surgical Oncology, The Wexner Medical Center at The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio.
authors.forename: William E
authors.initials: WE
authors.lastname: Carson
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D001365:Axilla; D001943:Breast Neoplasms / Q000556:secondary / Q000601:surgery*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D059146:Metastasectomy; D008875:Middle Aged; D009367:Neoplasm Staging; D016609:Neoplasms, Second Primary / Q000556:secondary / Q000601:surgery*; D010051:Ovarian Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery*; D011379:Prognosis
keywords: axillary; cancer; metastasis; recurrence; surgery