Angiosarcoma of the breast after lumpectomy and radiation therapy for adenocarcinoma

✍ Scribed by Stanley S. Givens; Nancy Ellerbroek

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 1993
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 99 KB
• Volume: 71
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0008-543X
• DOI: 10.1002/1097-0142(19930501)71:9<2880::aid-cncr2820710934>3.0.co;2-5

✦ Synopsis

Angiosarcoma of the Breast after Lumpectomy and Radiation Therapy for Adenocarcinoma

We read with interest the recent report by Drs. Stokkel and Peterse regarding three cases of angiosarcoma of the breast that occurred after lumpectomy and postoperative radiation therapy for treatment of primary breast adenocarcinoma.' The observance of such a malignancy in the irradiated breast, after conservation therapy for primary breast carcinoma, is a rare occurrence and the authors indicate that they are aware of only two other such cases that have been described in the l i t e r a t ~r e . ~, ~

For the sake of accuracy, however, we would like to point out that at least one other similar case, from the M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, was described by us in this very journal in 1989.' We note that, like the cases presented by Drs. Stokkel and Peterse, our case occurred in the left breast after breast preservation surgery and radiation therapy.