Umbilical metastasis from breast cancer related with tumor marker elevation

Radiat Med. 2006 Jan;24(1):77-9. doi: 10.1007/BF02489993.

Abstract

We describe a 53-year-old woman with tumor marker abnormality caused by an umbilical metastasis from breast cancer. She had undergone breast conservation therapy (BCT) for breast cancer (T2N1M0) 9 years previously. Umbilical metastasis was detected 9 months after tumor marker elevation was first noted. After resection of the umbilical metastasis, tumor marker level decreased immediately and normalized. The patient is alive without other metastasis.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Abdominal Neoplasms / blood
  • Abdominal Neoplasms / secondary*
  • Adenocarcinoma / blood
  • Adenocarcinoma / secondary*
  • Biomarkers, Tumor / blood*
  • Breast Neoplasms / blood
  • Breast Neoplasms / pathology*
  • Female
  • Humans
  • Middle Aged
  • Umbilicus / pathology*

Substances

  • Biomarkers, Tumor