A solitary brain metastasis as the only site of recurrence of HR positive, HER2 negative breast cancer: a case report and review of the literature

A solitary brain metastasis as the only site of recurrence of HR positive, HER2 negative breast cancer: a case report and review of the literature

Abstract Background Breast cancer is one of the most common causes of brain metastases. However, the presence of isolated central nervous system (CNS) metastatic disease early in the course of disease relapse is a rare event in cases of hormone receptor positive, human epidermal growth factor recept...

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Main Authors: Sandipkumar H Patel, Yoshihito David Saito, Zaibo Li, Bhuvaneswari Ramaswamy, Andrew Stiff, Mahmoud Kassem, Robert Wesolowski
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2021-01-01
Series:Journal of Medical Case Reports
Subjects:
Breast cancer
Brain metastases
Chemotherapy
HER2
Hormone receptors
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1186/s13256-020-02615-2

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https://doi.org/10.1186/s13256-020-02615-2

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