breast neoplasms/headache

A 44-year old female presented with locally advanced breast cancer that had been treated with neoadjuvant chemotherapy followed by modified radical mastectomy and thereafter three cycles of paclitaxel. She presented with severe refractory headache that was unresponsive to oral analgesics including

BACKGROUND The co-occurrence of multiple chronic conditions in cancer patients is common and can have negative impact on cancer and cancer survivorship outcomes. This study aimed to document comorbidity occurrence among African-American and Latina (English language preferred (ELP) and Spanish

The association between Rosai-Dorfman Disease (RDD) and cancer was reported for the first time in 1984. However, there are still a small number of reports of this association. We describe a 60-year-old woman who presented with a focal onset motor seizure followed by tonic-clonic generalization and

Background: There are few treatment options for patients with leptomeningeal metastases (LM). Methods: We report a case series of patients with breast cancer and LM treated

Cryptococcosis is a fungal infection that mainly occurs in immunocompromised patients. We present the first case of cryptococcal meningitis in a patient who was being administered everolimus for breast cancer. Everolimus, a selective inhibitor of mammalian target of rapamycin, is a molecular

OBJECTIVE This study compared disease-free survival (DFS) obtained with two different regimens of adjuvant therapy in high-risk breast cancer. METHODS Women (who had performance status [PS] of 0 to 1) with operable, histologically confirmed, stage I to III adenocarcinoma of the breast were eligible.

We report a case of advanced breast cancer with meningeal metastasis and orbital metastasis (T4bN3cM1, Stage IV) achieving a significant improvement in QOL by multi-disciplinary therapy. The patient was a 51-year-old woman who had headaches and an ulcerative breast lump with meningeal metastasis and

Two cases of postoperative brain metastasis of breast cancer were evaluated after chemotherapy using ACNU. Case 1: A 47-year-old female, who had undergone right standard radical mastectomy in 1979 for breast cancer (T2 N0M0, papillo-tubular carcinoma), was treated with ADM, TAM, and 60Co irradiation

Breast cancer and lung cancer are the most common tumors that metastasize to iris. The metastasis of iris was generally diagnosed on ophthalmologic examination. In this case, we reported iris metastasis of patients with adenocarcinoma of breast cancer and MRI findings. We report a case of a

Pituitary metastasis occurs rarely in cancer patients and often remains undiagnosed. However, early detection and appropriate treatment can improve the patient's quality of life and possibly prolong survival. Herein, we describe the case of a 52-year-old woman with panhypopituitarism caused by

OBJECTIVE Clinical trials have reported conflicting results as to whether pre-operative aromatase inhibitors (AIs) improve outcome over pre-operative tamoxifen in postmenopausal women with hormone receptor-positive breast cancer. METHODS We performed a meta-analysis comparing primary and secondary

Overexpression of fibroblast growth factor receptor 1 (FGFR1), found in ≤8% of hormone receptor-positive (HR+), human epidermal growth factor receptor 2-negative (HER2-) breast cancer cases, is correlated with decreased overall survival and resistance to endocrine therapy (ET). Dovitinib, a potent