Synchronous inflammatory breast cancer and advanced ovarian carcinoma: a case with prolonged disease-free survival

Ann Oncol. 1999 May;10(5):585-8. doi: 10.1023/a:1008239124657.

Abstract

Despite the known association of these malignancies, the incidence of a synchronous presentation of breast and ovarian cancer is low, and the current literature does not address an approach to this clinical problem directly. We report a greater than 2.5 year disease-free survival in a patient treated for synchronous stage IIIB inflammatory breast cancer and stage IIIC epithelial ovarian cancer. The prolonged disease-free survival in our case may provide some guidance in this unusual clinical situation.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Breast Neoplasms / drug therapy*
  • Breast Neoplasms / pathology
  • Female
  • Humans
  • Middle Aged
  • Neoplasms, Multiple Primary / drug therapy*
  • Neoplasms, Multiple Primary / pathology
  • Ovarian Neoplasms / drug therapy*
  • Ovarian Neoplasms / pathology