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Breast Cancer
Breast myoepitheliomas should be managed as potentially malignant tumors
March 3rd, 2005
All breast myoepitheliomas should be managed as potentially malignant tumors. According to recent research from Australia, "Myoepitheliomas are typically benign tumors arising from exocrine glands. There have only been five reports of malignant myoepitheliomas from breast origin previously published in the English literature. This report describes a patient with myoepithelioma arising in the breast which later metastasized despite the primary tumor having benign histological features." "Impaired immune function due to end-stage renal failure and hemodialysis may have contributed to the malignant potential of her tumour," wrote R.R. Jennens and...
Source: Women's Health Weekly (2005-03-03)
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