1. An inflammatory triple negative breast cancer of an African woman before (A) and after (B) treatment.
An inflammatory triple negative breast cancer of an African woman before (A) and after (B) treatment. Patients that descend from African ethnicity have a higher probability of developing more aggressive forms of breast cancer with lower curability rates. In fact, this patient, although the breast mass decreased (B), did not respond to the treatment and developed very aggressive meningeal carcinomatosis (C) 6 months after diagnosis while still finishing neoadjuvant chemotherapy with an opening pressure in the lumber tap of 40 mm Hg (normal 15–20 mm Hg) and died within 2 weeks of this diagnosis despite intrathecal treatment.
Diana P Saraiva et al. ESMO Open 2017;2:e000208
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