Angiosarcoma of the breast which was developed after radiotherapy: case presentation

Year 2015, Volume: 7 Issue: 1, 15 - 20, 01.06.2015

Mehmet Veysi Bahadır Mesut Gül Zuhat Urakçı Arif Hamidi Hıdır Budak Sadullah Girgin

Abstract

Objective: For the patients who underwent breast conserving surgery because of breast
cancer; radiotherapy is given routinely to residual breast tissue as complementary treatment.
In this article; breast sarcoma case, which was developed after radiotherapy, was discussed in
a patient to whom breast conserving surgery was done.
Method: Breast-conserving surgery and axillary lymph node dissection was performed to
sixty-one years old female patient due to invasive ductal carcinoma of the right breast
diagnosis for about 5 years ago. Adjuvant chemotherapy and radiotherapy was applied to the
patient. At 5th year of follow-up; mastectomy was performed due to residual malignant mass
in breast tissue and the patient's pathology result was reported as a high-grade spindle cell
angiosarcoma. First-line chemotherapy was given and the patient died 16 months after
diagnosis.
Conclusion: Post radiation sarcoma is one of the rare occasions which should be kept mind
and its clinical presentation may interfere with breast cancer recurrence in the patients who
underwent breast-conserving surgery

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