Incidental Cardiac Metastasis in Breast Carcinoma
Yaomin Chen, Haibo Wang, Zhiyan Fu, Ellen Elizabeth Connor · 2025
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Description
Yaomin Chen, Haibo Wang, and their co-authors report breast cancer found in the heart only after death. Their 2025 case concerns a woman with advanced breast cancer that had spread to the usual sites. Spread to the heart is rare and often silent, so it is missed while patients live.
Through her illness, neither symptoms nor scans suggested heart involvement. At autopsy, cancer was found woven into the heart muscle and its outer surface, though the heart looked normal from outside. Lab stains confirmed the growth came from the breast cancer. The authors stress that only tissue study after death reveals such hidden spread. Knowing the true extent of disease shapes how doctors judge care.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Yaomin Chen, Haibo Wang, Zhiyan Fu, Ellen Elizabeth Connor |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2025 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 17 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |