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Late breast metastasis from resected lung cancer diagnosed by epidermal growth factor receptor gene mutation.

Division of Thoracic Surgery, Nagoya University Graduate School of Medicine, 65 Tsurumai-cho, Showa-ku, Nagoya, Japan.
Lung cancer (Amsterdam, Netherlands) (impact factor: 3.14). 09/2011; 74(2):352-3. DOI:10.1016/j.lungcan.2011.08.015 pp.352-3
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ABSTRACT Primary lung cancer metastasizes to various organs, but rarely metastasizes to the breast. We report a case of breast metastasis from primary lung cancer, which was confirmed by the detection of the same epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) gene mutation.

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Keywords

detection
 
EGFR
 
epidermal growth factor receptor
 
primary lung cancer
 
Primary lung cancer metastasizes
 

Koichi Fukumoto