[Hemolytic anemia associated with breast neoplasm].
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We describe a patient with a microangiopathic hemolytic anemia, associated with thrombocytopenia, in consequence of breast cancer in an advanced phase. Microangiopathic hemolytic anemia is a rare and serious compliance of malignant neoplasms, in particular of breast and gastric carcinomas. Microangiopathic hemolytic anemia has always a serious prognosis: survivance in non-treated patients is of a few weeks. Our patient, treated by chemotherapy, has gained a partial remission of MHA, with a reduction of blood transfusions.