TURKISH JOURNAL OF ONCOLOGY 2012 , Vol 27 , Num 2
Primary breast lymphoma; disease recurrence
Hüseyin KADIOĞLU,1 Serap YÜCEL,2 Zeynep GÜRAL,2 Nurhan GÖZÜBÜYÜKOĞLU,3 Züleyha AKGÜN,2 Şeyma YILDIZ,4 Zuhal GÜCİN,5 Süleyman BOZKURT,1 Yeliz Emine ERSOY,1 Mahmut MÜSLÜMANOĞLU,1 Esra KAYTAN SAĞLAM2
1Bezmialem Vakıf Üniversitesi Tıp Fakültesi, Genel Cerrahi Anabilim Dalı, İstanbul
2Bezmialem Vakıf Üniversitesi Tıp Fakültesi, Radyasyon Onkolojisi Anabilim Dalı, İstanbul
4Bezmialem Vakıf Üniversitesi Tıp Fakültesi, Nükleer Tip Anabilim Dalı, İstanbul
4Bezmialem Vakıf Üniversitesi Tıp Fakültesi, Radyoloji Anabilim Dalı, İstanbul
5Bezmialem Vakıf Üniversitesi Tıp Fakültesi, Patoloji Anabilim Dalı, İstanbul
Primary breast lymphoma (PBL) accounts 0.4-0.5% of all breast cancers. The aim is to present the patient diagnosed with recurrency of primary breast lymphoma treated six year ago without radiotherapy. A 63-years-old woman patient admitted to our hospital with a palpabl mass in her left breast. Six years ago she was treated with chemoterapy after local excision for primary left breast lymphoma. Imaging modalities showed multiple lesion in breast and confirmed with biopsy. Pathologic results were similar with first one and the case was accepted as PBL recurrence. Multipl metastases has been determined with staging modalities. Patient started to chemotherapy treatment. PBL is a rare cancer of breast and there is no consensus at the treatment of disease. In the literature addition of radiotherapy to the treatment prevents local recurrence. There were occured recurrence without radiotherapy, mimicked that radiotherapy is an essential modality in PBL treatment. Keywords : Primary breast lymphoma; radiotherapy