Pleomorphic liposarcoma following radiotherapy for breast carcinoma

✍ Scribed by Linda Arbabi; Michael J. Warhol

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 1982
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 383 KB
• Volume: 49
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0008-543X
• DOI: 10.1002/1097-0142(19820301)49:5<878::aid-cncr2820490510>3.0.co;2-r

✦ Synopsis

A pleomorphic liposarcoma arising in a site previously irradiated as a treatment for breast carcinoma is described. This case fulfills the criteria for a tumor to be radiation-induced. The tumor is localized with an irradiated area, there is a clear histologic distinction between the previous and current tumor, and there is a long latent interval.

Cancer 49:878-880, 1982.

ARCOMAS ARE a rare, but accepted, complication S of radiotherapy for breast carcinoma. Twentyeight cases have been reported in the English literature.

The most common sarcomas have been f i b r o s a r c ~m a ~. ~. ~ and o~teosarcoma.~ Chondrosarcoma,' mixed mesenchymal sarcoma,6 malignant fibrous histiocytoma,'-* and undifferentiated sarcoma6 have been reported. This article reports a case of pleomorphic liposarcoma following radiotherapy for breast carcinoma.