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Annals of Oncology 13:173-174, 2002
© 2002 European Society for Medical Oncology

Massive cavitation of solid pulmonary metastatic lesions in a breast cancer patient: a case report

W. Mermershtain1,+, H. Schulman2, Y. Hertzanu2 and Y. Cohen1

Departments of 1Oncology and 2Radiology, Soroka University Medical Center, Faculty of Health Sciences, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer Sheva, Israel

Received 24 January 2001; revised 26 June 2001; accepted 24 July 2001.

A 40-year-old female with metastatic breast cancer developed multiple lung nodules some of them with cavitations. Following treatment with Taxol/Herceptin most of the lesions disappeared and in many cavity lesions appeared. There was no further change in the appearance of lung lesions.

Key words: breast cancer, cavitation, lung metastases


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