Abstract
The case reports a 49-year-old patient, drug-addicted, undernourished, and homeless, who was referred to our service presenting a diagnostic of breast sarcoma and ulcerating tumor which extended from the right breast to the right flank. She underwent hygienic mastectomy and, as it developed, she presented a range of complications, culminating in the recurrence of the tumor and pulmonary metastasis few months after her initial treatment. There is relevance in our study not only because it reports the development of the breast sarcoma, rare neoplasm, and its aggressiveness with fast recurrence, but also because it exposes the impact of biopsychosocial behavior of this patient in her clinical outcome.
Highlights
Breast cancer is the most common malignant cancer in Brazilian women, excluding nonmelanoma skin cancer, while soft tissue sarcomas are rare tumors derived from mesenchymal cells, comprising 1% of the malignant neoplasms in the adult population [1]
The highest incidence of soft tissue sarcomas is after the fifth decade of the life
The best prognostic predictor is the tumor size since masses smaller than 5 cm have a better prognostic [2]. Considering it a rare neoplasm, the diagnosis of sarcoma is not always easy and it is made by histopathology after removing the lesion [3]
Summary
Advanced Stage Breast Sarcoma Treatment in a Third World Country Public Hospital. Amanda Lino de Faria ,1 Cinthia Moreno Garcia, Gabriela de Andrade Rodrigues, Lais Helena Dumbra Toloni dos Santos, Gabriela B. The case reports a 49-year-old patient, drug-addicted, undernourished, and homeless, who was referred to our service presenting a diagnostic of breast sarcoma and ulcerating tumor which extended from the right breast to the right flank. She underwent hygienic mastectomy and, as it developed, she presented a range of complications, culminating in the recurrence of the tumor and pulmonary metastasis few months after her initial treatment. There is relevance in our study because it reports the development of the breast sarcoma, rare neoplasm, and its aggressiveness with fast recurrence, and because it exposes the impact of biopsychosocial behavior of this patient in her clinical outcome
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