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Transcatheter embolisation to control severe bleeding in fungating breast cancer
E M Rankin1, R D Rubens, J F Reidy
1Imperial Cancer Research Fund, Clinical Oncology Unit, London, U.K.
Abstract:
Severe and recurrent haemorrhage from ulcerating breast or skin lesions was controlled in seven of nine women with breast cancer. Arterial catheterisation and embolisation with a variety of materials (gelfoam, polyvinyl alcohol, steel coils, 50% dextrose) was used. Local anaesthesia only was needed, allowing very ill patients to be treated. This approach is the treatment of choice for severe haemorrhage in breast cancer.