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Metastatic lesions of the stomach and colon in breast cancer

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Clinical cases highlight metastasis in gastrointestinal tract from breast cancer, suggesting rarity and diagnosis challenges.

Metastatic lesions of breast cancer in the gastrointestinal tract are rare but important to recognize.
Literature reports a frequency of up to 1% for such metastasis, often mimicking primary gastrointestinal diseases.
Three clinical cases illustrate distinctive endoscopic and histological features of stomach and colon lesions.
Awareness of this possibility is crucial when patients present gastrointestinal symptoms alongside a breast cancer history.

Shirobokova et al. (2025) studied this question.

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