The addition of Bevacizumab to chemotherapy has shown its first-line interest in metastatic breast cancer by improving PFS but not OS. After a certain period of exposure, the appearance of side effects such as acute Congestive heart failure (CHF) has been described during clinical trials; manifested by a drop in LVEF and clinical signs which sometimes caused a hospitalization. We report the case of a patient in whom this exposure time was rather long with a very long survival under Bevacizumab.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPulmonary synovial sarcoma is a rare malignant tumor accounting for 10% of soft tissue sarcomas. It usually arises from the limbs and its occurrence in the lung is exceptional. We here report a clinical case of pulmonary synovial sarcoma in a 54-year-old man detected at a localised stage.
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