Nihon Gekakei Rengo Gakkaishi (Journal of Japanese College of Surgeons)
Online ISSN : 1882-9112
Print ISSN : 0385-7883
ISSN-L : 0385-7883
CASE REPORTS
Two Cases of Spindle Cell Carcinoma of the Breast
Tomoko Hirao, Takasumi Hosoi, Yukio Aomatsu, Takeshi Nakao, Seiichi Sugihara, Masahiro Tsutsumi, Atsushi Imagawa
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2014 Volume 39 Issue 5 Pages 874-881

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Spindle cell carcinoma is a rare type of breast cancer with frequency of 0.08-0.72%. We report 2 cases of spindle cell carcinoma, both showed rapid growth with extremely poor prognosis.
A 43-year-old woman with palpable mass of 1.8cm in her right breast, was diagnosed as spindle cell carcinoma with clear cell change, Stage ⅡB [T2 (2.5cm) N1 (1/15) M0], negative ER, PR and HER2. Lung and liver metastasis occurred 3 months after adjuvant chemotherapy, progressive disease with changing to vinorelbine chemotherapy and died in 2 months.
Second case was a 53-year-old woman, diagnosed as spindle cell carcinoma Stage ⅡB [T2 (4cm) N1 (14/20) M0], negative ER, PR and HER2. Multiple bone, lung and liver metastasis occurred during adjuvant chemotherapy and died 10 months after surgery.
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