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Sarcoidosis Occurring After Solid Cancer: A Nonfortuitous Association: Report of 12 Cases and Review of the Literature.
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- CT Imaging Features of Pulmonary Sarcoidosis: Typical and Atypical Radiological Features and Their Differential Diagnosis.Medicina (Kaunas, Lithuania) · 2025Review
- Sarcoidosis and Cancer: The Role of the Granulomatous Reaction as a Double-Edged Sword.Journal of clinical medicine · 2024Article
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- Sarcoid-like reaction in malignant melanoma exacerbated with pembrolizumab therapy case report.Heliyon · 2024Article
- Autoimmune rheumatic diseases associated with granulomatous mastitis.Rheumatology international · 2023Review
- Endobronchial ultrasound-guided transbronchial needle aspiration facilitating diagnosis of sarcoidosis in a breast cancer patient with multiple lymphadenopathy: a case report.Journal of medical case reports · 2022Article
- Tumor-Associated Granulomas Preceding a Diagnosis of Thoracic Sarcoidosis: A Retrospective, Single-Center Cohort Study.Journal of clinical medicine · 2021Article
- Systemic Sarcoidosis Induced by Chemotherapy, Mimicking Metastatic Testicular Carcinoma withMolecular imaging and radionuclide therapy · 2021Article
- Sarcoidosis-Like Cancer-Associated Granulomatosis: Characteristics and a Case-Control Comparison with Sarcoidosis.Journal of clinical medicine · 2021Article
- Sarcoidosis-Lymphoma Syndrome Presenting As Bony Vertebral Metastasis: A Case Report and Literature Review.Cureus · 2021Article
- A Case of Synchronous Occurrence of Intracranial Germinoma and Systemic Sarcoidosis.NMC case report journal · 2021Article
- Presence of concurrent sarcoid-like granulomas indicates better survival in cancer patients: a retrospective cohort study.ERJ open research · 2020Article
- Mastitis in Autoimmune Diseases: Review of the Literature, Diagnostic Pathway, and Pathophysiological Key Players.Journal of clinical medicine · 2020Review
- Sarcoidosis and breast cancer: A retrospective case series.Respiratory medicine case reports · 2020Article
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- Cardiac sarcoidosis in a patient with testicular seminoma.BMJ case reports · 2019Article
- Hilar and mediastinal sarcoid-like reaction after the treatment of malignant tumors: imaging features and natural course onJapanese journal of radiology · 2019Article
- Sarcoid-Like Mediastinal Lymphadenopathy in Gynecologic Malignancy.Pulmonary medicine · 2018Article
- Sarcoidosis and colon cancer: a possible association.Sarcoidosis, vasculitis, and diffuse lung diseases : official journal of WASOG · 2018Article
- Concurrent Diagnoses of Cutaneous Sarcoidosis and Recurrent Metastatic Breast Cancer: More than a Coincidental Occurrence?Case reports in dermatological medicine · 2018Article
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Abstract
The association between cancer and sarcoidosis is controversial. Some epidemiological studies show an increase of the incidence of cancer in patients with sarcoidosis but only few cases of sarcoidosis following cancer treatment have been reported. We conducted a retrospective case study from internal medicine and oncology departments for patients presenting sarcoidosis after solid cancer treatment. We also performed a literature review to search for patients who developed sarcoidosis after solid cancer. We describe the clinical, biological, and radiological characteristics and outcome of these patients. Twelve patients were included in our study. Various cancers were observed with a predominance of breast cancer. Development of sarcoidosis appeared in the 3 years following cancer and was asymptomatic in half of the patients. The disease was frequently identified after a follow-up positron emission tomography computerized tomography evaluation. Various manifestations were observed but all patients presented lymph node involvement. Half of the patients required systemic therapy. With a median follow-up of 73 months, no patient developed cancer relapse. Review of the literature identified 61 other patients for which the characteristics of both solid cancer and sarcoidosis were similar to those observed in our series. This report demonstrates that sarcoidosis must be considered in the differential diagnosis of patients with a history of malignancy who have developed lymphadenopathy or other lesions on positron emission tomography computerized tomography. Histological confirmation of cancer relapse is mandatory in order to avoid unjustified treatments. This association should be consider as a protective factor against cancer relapse.
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