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Breast Cancer
Reports from Innsbruck Medical University highlight recent research in breast cancer
March 27th, 2008
According to a study from Innsbruck, Austria, "The so called 'sweat gland carcinoma' is a rare skin malignancy. The differentiation between apocrine and eccrine neoplasms remains difficult." "Skin tumors of the axilla are often suspected to be metastasis of other neoplasms in particular breast cancer. A 71-year-old man presented with a morphea-like plaque of the right axilla which in punch biopsy was first suspected as metastasis of primary lobular breast carcinoma. After further clinical and laboratory work up including immunohistochemistry the original diagnosis of a breast cancer had to be changed to solid apocrine carcinoma of the skin. Wide excision with en-bloc...
Source: Women's Health Weekly (2008-03-27)
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