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Umbilical metastasis from breast cancer related with tumor marker elevation

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We sescribe a 53-year-old woman with tumor marker abnormality caused by an umbilical metastasis from breast cancer. She had undergone breast conservation therapy (BCT) for breast cancer (T2N1M0) 9 years previously. Umbilical metastasis was detected 9 months after tumor marker elevation was first noted. After resection of the umbilical metastasis, tumor marker level decreased immediately and normalized. The patient is alive without other metastasis.

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  1. Department of Surgery, Noichi Central Hospital, Takyo, Japan

    Naoshige Tochika

  2. Department of Radiology, Program of Tumor Biology and Regulation, Kochi Medical School, Kochi University, Kohasu, Nankoku, 783-8505, Kochi, Japan

    Yoriko Murata M.D., Yasuhiro Ogawa, Yoko Yamawaki, Shino Kohsaki, Kei Kubota, Akihiko Nishioka & Shoji Yoshida

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Murata, Y., Ogawa, Y., Yamawaki, Y. et al. Umbilical metastasis from breast cancer related with tumor marker elevation. Radiation Medicine 24, 77–79 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02489993

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