Rare case of primary breast cancer metastasizing to GI tract
Bahrain: Ebrahim Almahmeed and team in a recent study published in the journal Case reports in Surgery have reported a rare case of metastatic breast cancer.
The researchers found a rarest metastatic lobular mammary carcinoma in a 52-year-old Bahraini woman who presented with an obstructing rectal mass which turned out to be a gastrointestinal tract metastasis from primary breast cancer. Though it was considered a rare presentation, doctors state more unusual presentation of metastatic disease has to be predicted nowadays, with survival of breast cancer patients.
Breast cancer being the most common cancer is a global health problem that needs management. In 2020, there were 2.3 million women diagnosed with breast cancer and 685 000 deaths globally. An estimation in 2021 says 281,550 women in the United States will be diagnosed with invasive breast cancer, and 49,290 women will be diagnosed with non-invasive breast cancer.
The case study reported
• The case study was of a 52-year-old female, with a history of diabetes mellitus on oral hypoglycemics, who presented to the emergency department complaining of diffuse on and off abdominal pain, nausea, vomiting, and obstipation for 1 week and constipation for a month with weight loss up to 8kg.
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