Case report: Systemic sclerosis during neoadjuvant therapy for breast cancer in a 59-year-old woman
Siyu Liu, Xiaomei Xiao, Fangjing Yue, Cong Su, Yujun Tong, Weiyun Xu · 2024
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Siyu Liu and five co-authors report a case of systemic sclerosis arising during breast cancer treatment in a 2024 paper. Systemic sclerosis is an autoimmune disease whose first sign is usually skin hardening. A fifty nine year old woman developed skin fibrosis while receiving pre surgery therapy for breast cancer, and was diagnosed with the disease.
Her skin disease progressed rapidly despite strong cancer treatments, including targeted therapy. Remarkably, the sclerosis went into remission after cancer therapy stopped. The authors review reports linking this disease with cancers and discuss how to tell the disease apart from drug side effects. The case raises the possibility that the treatment itself triggered or drove the autoimmune flare.
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| CREATOR | Siyu Liu, Xiaomei Xiao, Fangjing Yue, Cong Su, Yujun Tong, Weiyun Xu |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2024 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 23 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |