Breast Pathology Department and Laboratory, Tianjin Medical University Cancer Institute and Hospital, Key Laboratory of Breast Cancer Prevention and Therapy, Tianjin Medical University, Ministry of Education, Key laboratory of Cancer Prevention and Therapy of Tianjin, West Huanhu Road, Ti Yuan Bei, Hexi District, Tianjin 300060, China.
World J Surg Oncol. 2012 Nov 20;10:251. doi: 10.1186/1477-7819-10-251.
We report a case of pure invasive cribriform carcinoma of the breast, which had been untreated for thirteen years, being found with bone metastasis at initial presentation, because distant metastasis is rarely found in this tumor. A fifty-nine-year-old postmenopausal woman presented with a large left breast mass. Although she had noticed a lump in a left breast thirteen years ago, she had not sought treatment. The tumor had enlarged gradually since from one year before and become ulcerated. The two enlarged axillary lymph nodes were also palpable. After two cycles of neoadjuvant chemotherapy, she underwent left radial mastectomy with a free skin graft. Emission computed tomography result has confirmed bone metastasis. The histological diagnosis of the tumor revealed the pure invasive cribriform carcinoma, since over than ninety percent of invasive tumor components showed a characteristic cribriform growth, and the remainder was tubular carcinoma. She has been well without evidence of tumor recurrence for seven years after surgery and several routine postoperative therapies. Although with favorable prognosis, pure invasive cribriform carcinoma is still possible to develop into the advanced (Stage four) breast cancer if untreated for a long time. However, the survival of this patient for free disease after several locoregional and systemic therapies maybe provide a supplement for invasive cribriform carcinoma's excellent prognosis.
我们报告一例未经治疗十三年的乳腺单纯浸润性筛状癌,因其远处转移少见,故初诊时发现有骨转移。一位 59 岁绝经后妇女因左侧乳腺巨大肿块就诊。虽然十三年前她就发现左侧乳腺有一肿块,但并未寻求治疗。该肿瘤自一年前逐渐增大并发生溃疡。同时可触及两个增大的腋窝淋巴结。行两个周期新辅助化疗后,行左侧桡骨乳腺癌根治术加游离皮瓣移植术。发射型计算机断层扫描结果证实有骨转移。肿瘤的组织学诊断为单纯浸润性筛状癌,因为超过 90%的浸润性肿瘤成分呈特征性筛状生长,其余部分为管状癌。术后 7 年,患者无肿瘤复发迹象,且已完成数次常规术后治疗,情况良好。虽然预后良好,但如果长期不治疗,单纯浸润性筛状癌仍有可能发展为晚期(四期)乳腺癌。然而,该患者在接受局部和全身多种治疗后,无疾病生存,这可能为浸润性筛状癌的良好预后提供了补充。