Breast Cancer (Surgery)

Postsurgical Changes Mimic Breast Cancer

Published in Women's Health Weekly, June 24th, 1996

Postsurgical changes in breast tissue may mimic an infectious or neoplastic process but, in reality, actually represent benign, self-limited interruption of lymphatic vessels.

In the June 1996 issue of the Mayo Clinic Proceedings, researchers from the Mayo Clinic and the Iowa Oncology Research Association presented case reports of six women who underwent partial mastectomy, breast biopsy, or axillary lymph node dissection and shortly afterward had clinical signs, erythema and edema in particular, suggestive of infectious mastitis or inflammatory breast cancer (Mayo Clin Proc 1996;71:552-555).

According to Dr. Charles L. Loprinzi, the paper's lead...

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Source: Women's Health Weekly (1996-06-24)

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