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Impressive Response to Concomitant Platinum-based Chemotherapy and Yttrium-90 in a Patient with Heavily Pretreated Triple-negative Breast Cancer Widely Metastasized to the Liver

Authors :
Luis E. Raez
Steven M Nguyen
Ana Botero
Federico Bengoa
Aurelio Castrellon
Source :
Cureus
Publication Year :
2017
Publisher :
Cureus, Inc., 2017.

Abstract

Metastatic triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC) constitutes a heterogeneous group of diseases with systemic treatment options limited to cytotoxic chemotherapy at the time being. The disease tends to affect visceral organs more frequently when compared to hormone receptor-positive breast cancer. The prognoses of patients with heavily pretreated disease affecting the liver are very dismal. We present the response to radioembolization and systemic chemotherapy in a seriously ill patient who had undergone previous lines of chemotherapy for TNBC with extensive liver metastases.

Details

ISSN :
21688184
Database :
OpenAIRE
Journal :
Cureus
Accession number :
edsair.doi.dedup.....1b64f908849ec8efd11069c2c4694db5
Full Text :
https://doi.org/10.7759/cureus.1402