[A Case of Malignant Phyllodes Tumor Effectively Treated by Radiation Therapy as a Palliative Medicine].

The current report presents the case of a 46-year-old woman with phyllodes tumor metastasis to the anterior chest wall treated by radiation therapy. Although the lesion was not controlled with surgery and chemotherapy, the tumor size markedly reduced after radiation therapy, and bleeding and foul odor from the tumor stopped. Radiation therapy for phyllodes tumor appears to be an effective treatment and should be recognized as one choice of palliative medicine.

[Clinical evaluation of eribulin mesylate for the treatment of metastatic breast cancer].

Background: Eribulin mesylate, a novel non-taxane inhibitor of microtubule dynamics, results in a significant improvement in the overall survival of heavily pretreated patients with metastatic breast cancer(MBC). In the present study, we aimed to clarify the efficacy and safety of eribulin mesylate for the treatment of MBC.

Patients And Methods: We examined 18 patients with MBC who received eribulin mesylate in our hospital from October 2011 to May 2013.

Metaplastic breast carcinoma with chondrosarcomatous differentiation: fine-needle aspiration cytology findings. A case report.

Metaplastic carcinoma (carcinoma with pseudosarcomatous metaplasia) of the breast are high-grade carcinomas in which much of the tumor undergoes metaplastic change producing a pseudosarcomatous pattern. We report a case of metaplastic breast carcinoma (MBC) in whom fine-needle aspiration (FNA) cytology was performed with later histological confirmation. The lesion affected a 68-yr-old woman, with a tumor measuring 6.