Key result
Radiation therapy led to the resolution of a right ventricular mass in a 37-year-old woman with cardiac metastasis from cervical cancer.
Case Report (n=1)
Radiation therapy can lead to the resolution of cardiac metastases from cervical cancer, highlighting the utility of advanced imaging and targeted treatment in improving prognosis.
Supports radiation for select cardiac metastases from cervical cancer; hypothesis-generating and should not yet change practice.
We report the case of a 37-year-old woman with a right ventricular mass (detected by echocardiography and PET-CT) associated with cervical cancer. After radiation therapy there was no more evidence for a mass in the right ventricle. We wish to stress that, although the outcome for cervical cancer with cardiac metastases is still very poor, prognosis has improved with advanced imaging technology and radiation therapy.
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Feys et al. (2005) conducted a case report in Cardiac metastasis from cervical cancer (n=1). Radiation therapy was evaluated on Resolution of right ventricular mass. Radiation therapy led to the resolution of a right ventricular mass in a 37-year-old woman with cardiac metastasis from cervical cancer.
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