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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
- Source :
- Cureus
- Publication Year :
- 2017
- Publisher :
- Cureus, Inc., 2017.
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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.
- Subjects :
- Oncology
medicine.medical_specialty
medicine.medical_treatment
Disease
chemotherapy
030218 nuclear medicine & medical imaging
03 medical and health sciences
0302 clinical medicine
Breast cancer
Internal medicine
yttrium-90
medicine
Triple-negative breast cancer
Chemotherapy
business.industry
General Engineering
Cytotoxic chemotherapy
medicine.disease
Metastatic breast cancer
030220 oncology & carcinogenesis
Concomitant
Radiation Oncology
triple-negative breast cancer
metastatic breast cancer
business
Hormone
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 21688184
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Cureus
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....1b64f908849ec8efd11069c2c4694db5
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.7759/cureus.1402