Citation

Dalhaug A, Pawinski A, Norum J, Nieder C. Cases J. 2014; 1(1).

Copyright

(Copyright © 2014, Holtzbrinck Springer Nature Publishing Group - BMC)

DOI

10.1186/1757-1626-1-195

PMID

unavailable

Abstract

Case presentation: This is an unusual case where a 49-year old female patient with known schizophrenia, paranoid type and a history of early-stage breast cancer, which was treated more than 6 years earlier, attempted suicide. Computed tomography and magnetic resonance imaging after this incident revealed the presence of multiple brain metastases as the first symptomatic site of recurrent cancer. Further staging lead to the diagnosis of lung, hilar and mediastinal lymph node metastases and histology confirmed estrogen receptor-positive metastatic cancer. Treatment consisted of whole-brain radiotherapy and letrozole. Twenty-one months later, the patient is in continued partial remission. © 2008 Dalhaug et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd.

Language: en

Keywords

human; female; case report; suicide attempt; levomepromazine; clinical feature; disease course; breast cancer; follow up; olanzapine; paranoid schizophrenia; cancer recurrence; cancer staging; lymph node metastasis; Article; cancer regression; zuclopenthixol; lung metastasis; brain metastasis; radiation dose; mastectomy; letrozole; breast metastasis