title: Primary breast angiosarcoma in a young woman.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Angiosarcomas of the breast are a rare subtype of sarcomas that frequently are diagnosed after radiation therapy for primary breast cancer. Primary angiosarcomas are rare entities accounting 0.05% of all malignant breast neoplasm.
  
  
  METHODS
  We report a case of primary angiosarcoma of the breast in a 25 years woman, with no previous radiotherapy, treated with a total mastectomy followed by radio-chemotherapy.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Total mastectomy appears to be the only treatment known that has proven to benefit these patients. Adjuvant treatment has not proven value up until today. The 5-year disease free survival for grade 1 tumors can be as high as 76%, and up to 15% for grade 3.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Due to the rarity of these tumors there is no standard therapies approach.
authors.affiliation: Gynecologic Oncology Unit. Quiron university hospital Madrid, Spain. Electronic address: saraiacoponi@hotmail.com.
authors.forename: Sara
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Iacoponi
authors.affiliation: Gynecologic Oncology Unit. Quiron university hospital Madrid, Spain.
authors.forename: Jackie
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Calleja
authors.affiliation: Gynecologic Oncology Unit. Quiron university hospital Madrid, Spain.
authors.forename: Gines
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Hernandez
authors.affiliation: Gynecologic Oncology Unit. Quiron university hospital Madrid, Spain.
authors.forename: Ricardo
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Sainz de la Cuesta
keywords: Breast cancer; Diffusion-weighted magnetic resonance imaging (MR-DWI); Mastectomy; Primary angiosarcoma; Radiotherapy; Young woman