A Rare Case of Metastatic Mucinous Breast Carcinoma as a First Presentation of Colon Cancer in a Male Patient: Case Report and Review of the Literature

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Zaid Al-Ishaq Meghna Roy B Bickley A Bhatnagar B Isgar T Sircar

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Zaid Al-Ishaq
General Surgery Department, Breast unit, New Cross Hospital, The Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust, Wolverhampton, UK

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The majority of breast tumors are primary; however metastatic tumor to the breast from extramammary sites has an incidence of 0.5 to 3% and can be misinterpreted clinically as a primary breast tumor. We report a case of metastatic mucinous breast carcinoma as a first presentation from colon cancer in a male patient who hasn’t had any bowel symptoms. The immunohistochemical study helped in suspecting the diagnosis, which was then confirmed by CT scan abdomen and pelvis and endoscopic biopsy of the colonic lesion. Management of such patients usually by palliative chemotherapy due to the aggressive nature of the disease however, surgical intervention may be indicated in symptomatic patient or risk of tumor ulceration as in our patient.

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Case Report and Review of the Literature

Publication history

Received: Mon 20, Jul 2020
Accepted: Thu 06, Aug 2020
Published: Tue 18, Aug 2020

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© 2023 Zaid Al-Ishaq. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. Hosting by Science Repository.
DOI: 10.31487/j.SCR.2020.08.16