1. Breast cancer metastasizing to the tongue.
- Author
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Neelakantan, Pratap, McLean, Sean R., Kenny, Sinead, Nathan, Myooran, Panchal, Lajja, Sandhu, Gurpreet, Coombes, Charles R., and Palmieri, Carlo
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BREAST cancer , *TONGUE diseases , *MASTECTOMY , *DRUG therapy - Abstract
The article presents a case study of a 24-year-old woman with a metastic deposit on her tongue, secondary to primary breast cancer. A right mastectomy and axillary clearance with immediate reconstruction was performed. It states that the operative specimen showed a 38-mm, grade 2, invasive ductal carcinoma that gave weakly results for estrogen receptors. It reveals that after she received further chemotherapy she died from her disease a little over 2 years from the time of original presentation.
- Published
- 2008