Tuberous sclerosis is a hereditary disorder that presents with the classic triad of intelligence loss, seizures, and facial angiofibroma. The causative genes have been identified as the TSC1 gene on chromosome 9 and the TSC2 gene on chromosome 16.
Since only a few cases of breast cancer occurring in tuberous sclerosis patients have been reported, we report this case with a review of the literature. We report a case of breast cancer that developed in a patient with tuberous sclerosis.
A 44-year-old female patient was diagnosed with tuberous sclerosis at 6 years old. Her right kidney was removed due to the rupture of a renal angiolipoma at 26 years old, and she started haemodialysis due to renal failure at 42 years old. After examining a rapidly growing left breast mass, we diagnosed the patient with left breast cancer. We performed a left mastectomy and axillary lymph node dissection, and the pathological diagnosis was breast cancer pT3N1M0 pStageⅢA ER0% PgR0% HER2 (0) MIB-1 90%. We initiated postoperative adjuvant therapy, but rapidly increasing local recurrence was observed during the adjuvant therapy period, and recurrent tumors reached the pericardium. Local radiotherapy and chemotherapy were performed, but the treatment was ineffective. The patient died approximately 7 months after the initial surgery.
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