Case series reveals breast cancer with volume reduction in three patients, indicating atypical radiological findings.
Diagnosis of Pregnancy-associated breast cancer (PABC) is challenging and often misdiagnosed as benign breast disease due to physiological changes during pregnancy or lactation.A delay in diagnosis and management stems from concerns for the fetus and newborn, especially in our social context. PABC patients typically present with breast lumps and enlargement on examination, and masses on imaging. Reduction of breast glandular tissue volume is rare in breast cancer, and few case reports of breast cancer with breast shrinkage are reported in the literature, which were not pregnancy-associated. We are presenting a series of three cases of PABC where we observed ipsilateral breast shrinkage with reduction of fibroglandular tissue as unusual radiological findings in these patients.
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