Medical Must-See: Metaplastic breast cancer in a teenager
Several rounds of tests were needed to distinguish the cancer from benign lookalikes.
A 15-year-old has become one of the youngest recorded patients with metaplastic breast cancer.
Because adolescent breast cancer is so rare, her doctors considered various cancer-mimicking diagnoses that might explain the growth after the teenager from Alabama presented to their clinic.
She told them that she had noticed the painless lump three months earlier, but had no skin changes, nipple discharge or trauma.
Physical examination found no warmth, redness, drainage or palpable axillary lymphadenopathy.
