TITLE:
Rectal Cancer Metastasizing to Breast: A Case Report and Review of Literature
AUTHORS:
Soha Yahya Hejazi, Fahad Ali Alghamdi, Nisar Haider Zaidi
KEYWORDS:
Metastasis to Breast, Rectal Cancer, Mucinous Adenoacrcinoma
JOURNAL NAME:
Case Reports in Clinical Medicine,
Vol.5 No.2,
February
18,
2016
ABSTRACT: Objectives: To report rare metastasis in breast from rectal cancer. Case Report: A 47-year-old married lady who presented with rectal bleeding for six weeks and diagnosed as a case of adenocarcinoma with no metastasis underwent neoadjuvent radiotherapy and chemotherapy and then abdominoperineal resection on follow-up found to have left breast mass and skin lesion in upper abdominal wall. Mammogram showed BIRADS-5. Tru cut biopsy showed mucinous/signet ring adenocarcinoma and she underwent lumpectomy and sentinel lymph node biopsy and excision of skin lesion. Histopathology of breast lump and skin lesion came as mucinous adeno-carcinoma of colonic origin, but all axillary lymph nodes were negative for malignancy. Conclusion: Metastatic breast lump is rare entity and every effort to be put to diagnose it using modern diagnostic tools.