Background: Colitis is a rare but serious gastrointestinal complication associated with taxane-based chemotherapy in patients with cancer. The incidence, clinical presentation, and outcome of colitis in patients with breast carcinoma treated with taxane-based chemotherapy is not known.
Methods: The authors searched their electronic database and identified patients with breast carcinoma who were treated with taxane-based chemotherapy between January 1997 and December 1999.