A Case of Pulmonary Metastasis of Breast Cancer 23 Years after Surgery Accompanied with Non-Tuberculous Mycobacterium Infection

A Case of Pulmonary Metastasis of Breast Cancer 23 Years after Surgery Accompanied with Non-Tuberculous Mycobacterium Infection

Recurrence of oestrogen receptor (ER)-positive breast cancer rarely occurs postoperatively after a long period. Breast cancer cells survive and settle in distant organs in a dormant state, a phenomenon known as “tumour dormancy.” Here, we present a 66-year-old woman with recurrence of ER-positive br...

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Main Authors: Yuki Yabuuchi, Takayuki Nakagawa, Masaki Shimanouchi, Shingo Usui, Kenji Hayashihara, Shuji Oh-ishi, Takefumi Saito, Jun Kanazawa, Yukiko Miura, Shouta Kubota, Kai Kawashima, Takafumi Shimada, Hisayuki Oshima, Hitomi Hirano, Mizu Nonaka, Yuka Kitaoka, Naoki Arai, Kentaro Hyodo, Atsuhito Nakazawa, Yuko Minami
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Karger Publishers 2020-11-01
Series:Case Reports in Oncology
Subjects:
tumour dormancy
mycobacterium intracellulare
caseous epithelioid cell granuloma
Online Access:https://www.karger.com/Article/FullText/511072

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