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Metastatic breast cancer to bone marrow

Author: Nidia P. Zapata, MD, 02/16/2018
Category: Laboratory Hematology > Non-hematopoietic malignancies involving the blood or bone marrow > Metastatic Carcinoma
Published Date: 02/19/2018

A 53-year-old female with a 2-month history of cough and dyspnea nad a PET-CT showing multiple lytic and blastic lesions in the axial skeleton. At admission, CBC was largely unremarkable while serum CA15-3 was 122.8U/ML, CEA:8.8ng/mL, with elevated LDH of 1096UI/L and a serum calcium of 9.4mg/dL.

Bone marrow aspirate and biopsy was perform with report of the biopsy adenocarcinoma of the breast: The immunoprofile was GATA3+, GCDFP-15+, Mammoglobin+, P16+ consistent with a breasy primary. Additional HER2 was strongly positive at 3+.