Breast metastases from extramammary tumours: a clinico-pathologic study of 11 cases

Breast metastases are rare. They represent 0,3 to 2% of all breast cancers. The clinical features of 11 patients with breast metastases from extramammary malignancies between 2002 and 2009 were retrospectively reviewed. Primary tumours in the 11 cases were: non-Hodgkin lymphomas (4), lung (2), colon, cutaneous melanoma, soft tissue, squamous cell carcinoma and carcinoma of salivary gland. All patients were women, the middle age was 69, 9 years. In six cases the metastases to the breast was concomitant to the diagnosis of the primitive tumour. Clinically it was a nodule in ten cases, the size average was 3, 5 cm. The middle survival after the diagnosis was twelve months. Breast metastasis is usually indicative of diffuse metastatic disease and a poor prognosis, Biopsy and careful review of previous