Single Jejunum Metastasis from Breast Cancer Arising Twelve Years after the Initial Treatment

Metastatic involvement of gastrointestinal tract from breast cancer is a rare event.We report the case of a 61-year-old woman presenting with bowel obstruction, related to metastasis of a primary breast cancer she 3 Piece Outdoor Counter Height Dining Set had 12 years earlier (a triple-negative invasive ductal carcinoma treated with surgery and chemotherapy).Bowel obstruction was caused 5% by a 20-centimeter tumor in the jejunum, involving also the transverse colon.

The patient underwent en bloc resection of tumor with jejunum and transverse bowel segment and received adjuvant chemotherapy with carboplatin and paclitaxel.Twenty months later, she was alive without disease recurrence.

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