%0 Journal Article
%T Primary breast lymphoma; disease recurrence
%A H¨¹seyin KADIO£¿LU
%A Serap Y¨¹CEL
%A Zeynep G¨¹RAL
%A Nurhan G£¿Z¨¹B¨¹Y¨¹KO£¿LU
%J Turkish Journal of Oncology
%D 2012
%I KARE Publishing
%X 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.
%K Primary breast lymphoma
%K radiotherapy.
%U http://onkder.org/pdf.php3?id=833