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A case of breast cancer with endocrine features
A Tsuchiya1, Y Nozawa, A Hasegawa
1Department of Surgery II, Fukushima Medical University School of Medicine, 1 Hikarigaoka, Fukushima 960-1295, Japan.
Breast Cancer (Tokyo, Japan)
|October 13, 2000
Abstract:
Cancer with endocrine features rarely occurs in the breast. We report a case of breast cancer with endocrine features in an 80-year-old woman. The tumors were treated by wide excision and a postoperative histopathologic diagnosis of carcinoma of the breast with endocrine features was made. Immunostaining was positive for chromogranin A, neuron-specific enolase and synaptophysin, but weakly argyrophilic. Widespread metastases occurred two months postoperatively, and the patient died of breast cancer 6 months after the first treatment