Angiosarcoma following radiation therapy for breast cancer Case report

Abstract

More and better accessibility to screening and increasing women’s knowledge about the main symptomatic breast cancer signs result in detection of this neoplasm at an early stage, allowing a conservative surgical treatment. Breast conserving therapy (BCT) due to breast carcinoma involves the use of adjuvant radiotherapy which carries a risk the secondary radiation-induced malignancy. Angiosarcoma of the breast is an extremely rare radiation-induced malignant tumor following breast conserving therapy (BCT), first described by Schmidt in 1887. In this article the authors presented the case of a 56-year-old woman who was admitted to the hospital because of diagnosed angiosarcoma of the right breast after breast conserving therapy (BCT) with the Sentinel Node Biopsy (SNB) and adjuvant radiotherapy of her breast carcinoma 5 years earlier. The patient had a simple mastectomy performed and on the second day after surgery was discharged home.