Ascending colon metastasis after breast cancer surgery: a case report and literature review.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Breast cancer is the most common cancer in women. The tumor is prone to metastasize in the brain, lung, liver, bone, and other organs; however, generally, it is less likely to metastasize in the digestive tract. Thus, breast cancer metastasizes to colon is rarely happened and easily ignored by clinicians. Such misdiagnosis may lead to delay the further diagnosis and treatment of patients, or even cause the life danger of patients due to the progress of the disease. Therefore, we propose such case reports to arouse clinicians' attention to the rare case of digestive tract metastasis after treatment of breast cancer. We also conducted a retrospective analysis of the relevant case reports. We suggest that because breast cancer with gastrointestinal metastasis rarely occurs,

SUBMITTER: Jia J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10005986 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature