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- Title
Inflammatory breast cancer: the disease, the biology, the treatment.
- Authors
Robertson, Fredika M; Bondy, Melissa; Yang, Wei; Yamauchi, Hideko; Wiggins, Shannon; Kamrudin, Samira; Krishnamurthy, Savitri; Le-Petross, Huong; Bidaut, Luc; Player, Audrey N; Barsky, Sanford H; Woodward, Wendy A; Buchholz, Thomas; Lucci, Anthony; Ueno, Naoto T; Cristofanilli, Massimo
- Abstract
Inflammatory breast cancer (IBC) is a rare and aggressive form of invasive breast cancer accounting for 2.5% of all breast cancer cases. It is characterized by rapid progression, local and distant metastases, younger age of onset, and lower overall survival compared with other breast cancers. Historically, IBC is a lethal disease with less than a 5% survival rate beyond 5 years when treated with surgery or radiation therapy. Because of its rarity, IBC is often misdiagnosed as mastitis or generalized dermatitis. This review examines IBC's unique clinical presentation, pathology, epidemiology, imaging, and biology and details current multidisciplinary management of the disease, which comprises systemic therapy, surgery, and radiation therapy.
- Publication
CA: a cancer journal for clinicians, 2010, Vol 60, Issue 6, p351
- ISSN
1542-4863
- Publication type
Journal Article
- DOI
10.3322/caac.20082