Metastases from carcinoma of mammary gland: An autopsy study

Publisher Website
Google Scholar
Abstract
Information on metastases from carcinoma of the mammary gland in an autopsy study of 707 cases occurring in white women over a 15-yr period is presented and tabulated. Multiple primary cancers occurred in 19% of the cases. Of the 137 cases that exhibit < 1 neoplastic malignancy, 31 (23%) were present in the contralateral mammary gland. Patients (70) had no metastasis from the mammary cancer at the time of death, and 55 of these patients had another cancer. The frequency of metastasis in parathyroid and thymus is discussed. When a parathyroid contained a metastasis, extensive metastases were noted in many organs and a late stage of the cancer was represented.

This publication has 16 references indexed in Scilit: