Screening Colonoscopy Unmasking Colonic Metastasis from an Occult Breast Ductal Carcinoma: A Case Report and Review of the Literature

Metastatic spread from breast cancer to the gastrointestinal tract is rare. Such cases are predominantly lobular carcinomas and they usually occur later on during the course of disease progression with the stomach being the most common site involved. Furthermore, occult breast primary tumor is extre...

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Main Authors: Bachar Samra, Sassine Ghanem, Ghulam Ilyas, Evelyn Taiwo
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Wiley 2019-01-01
Series:Case Reports in Oncological Medicine
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2019/8432079
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description Metastatic spread from breast cancer to the gastrointestinal tract is rare. Such cases are predominantly lobular carcinomas and they usually occur later on during the course of disease progression with the stomach being the most common site involved. Furthermore, occult breast primary tumor is extremely uncommon. To the best of our knowledge, we describe here the first case of incidental colonic metastasis as first presentation of an occult breast ductal carcinoma. We also provide a review of the literature on gastrointestinal—and specifically colonic—involvement from breast ductal carcinoma.
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spelling doaj-art-d0e40fd8ee2e4ba6a00365b7522bc4a52025-08-20T02:19:56ZengWileyCase Reports in Oncological Medicine2090-67062090-67142019-01-01201910.1155/2019/84320798432079Screening Colonoscopy Unmasking Colonic Metastasis from an Occult Breast Ductal Carcinoma: A Case Report and Review of the LiteratureBachar Samra0Sassine Ghanem1Ghulam Ilyas2Evelyn Taiwo3Department of Hematology/Oncology, State University of New York, Downstate, Brooklyn, NY, USADepartment of Hematology/Oncology, State University of New York, Downstate, Brooklyn, NY, USADepartment of Pathology, State University of New York, Downstate, Brooklyn, NY, USADepartment of Hematology/Oncology, State University of New York, Downstate, Brooklyn, NY, USAMetastatic spread from breast cancer to the gastrointestinal tract is rare. Such cases are predominantly lobular carcinomas and they usually occur later on during the course of disease progression with the stomach being the most common site involved. Furthermore, occult breast primary tumor is extremely uncommon. To the best of our knowledge, we describe here the first case of incidental colonic metastasis as first presentation of an occult breast ductal carcinoma. We also provide a review of the literature on gastrointestinal—and specifically colonic—involvement from breast ductal carcinoma.http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2019/8432079
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Screening Colonoscopy Unmasking Colonic Metastasis from an Occult Breast Ductal Carcinoma: A Case Report and Review of the Literature
Case Reports in Oncological Medicine
title Screening Colonoscopy Unmasking Colonic Metastasis from an Occult Breast Ductal Carcinoma: A Case Report and Review of the Literature
title_full Screening Colonoscopy Unmasking Colonic Metastasis from an Occult Breast Ductal Carcinoma: A Case Report and Review of the Literature
title_fullStr Screening Colonoscopy Unmasking Colonic Metastasis from an Occult Breast Ductal Carcinoma: A Case Report and Review of the Literature
title_full_unstemmed Screening Colonoscopy Unmasking Colonic Metastasis from an Occult Breast Ductal Carcinoma: A Case Report and Review of the Literature
title_short Screening Colonoscopy Unmasking Colonic Metastasis from an Occult Breast Ductal Carcinoma: A Case Report and Review of the Literature
title_sort screening colonoscopy unmasking colonic metastasis from an occult breast ductal carcinoma a case report and review of the literature
url http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2019/8432079
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