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ArticleCureus2025

Immunotherapy-Based Combination Therapy for the Successful Treatment of Coexisting Primary and Axillary Accessory Breast Cancers: A Case Report.

Yuko Tanaka, Yoshio Suzuki

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Article in Cureus, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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2 authors.

Yuko TanakaCancer Genome, Dokkyo Medical University Hospital, Mibu, JPN.
Yoshio SuzukiClinical Pathology, Asahi General Hospital, Asahi, JPN.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Accessory breast cancer is a relatively rare condition, and to our knowledge, no previous reports have described synchronous ipsilateral cancers of the breast and the axillary accessory breast. We report a unique case involving a 70-year-old female patient with luminal A subtype breast cancer and triple-negative accessory breast cancer. The axillary tumor, which had become ulcerative and exudative, was diagnosed as an accessory breast cancer with high Programmed Cell Death Ligand 1 (PD-L1) expression. Treatment with immune checkpoint inhibitors targeting PD-L1 was effective. This case highlights the clinical importance of considering accessory breast cancer as a distinct entity and demonstrates the potential utility of immunotherapy in such cases.

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accessory breast cancercancer genome profilingdouble cancersimmune-combined therapyprogrammed death ligand 1 (pd-l1)

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PMID40458326
PMCPMC12127700

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