Case Report

Concurrent Diagnoses of Cutaneous Sarcoidosis and Recurrent Metastatic Breast Cancer: More than a Coincidental Occurrence?

Table 1

Previous literature cases of breast cancer and sarcoidosis.

ReferenceSexPatient age (years)Interval b/t diseases (years)Sarcoidosis onsetTumour type

Prior et al. (1952) [6]F595PBreast adenocarcinoma

Brincker et al. (1974) [5]FNSNSPNS
FP
FP
MP

Suen JS et al (1990) [7]F500.7ABreast cancer (stage II)

Shah AK et al (1990) [8]F363PInvasive ductal carcinoma

Von Knorring et al. (1976) [9]F745PNon-metastasizing breast carcinoma

Whittington R et al. (1986) [10]F520.6AInfiltrating ductal carcinoma
F425PMetastatic breast cancer

Reich J et al. (1995) [11]F4710AIntraductal breast carcinoma
F559PInfiltrating ductal breast carcinoma

Brechtek B et al. (1996) [4]F581PNS

Seersholm N et al. (1997) [12]NSNSNSPNS

Romer FK et al. (1998) [13]FBetween 19-78 yearsNSPNS
FP
FP
FP
FP
FP

Askling J et al. (1999) [14]NSNSNSPNS
NSPNS

Lower EE et al. (2001) [15]F255PInvasive ductal carcinoma
F575PInfiltrating ductal carcinoma
F588PInvasive ductal carcinoma
F402AInvasive ductal carcinoma
F491AInvasive ductal carcinoma
F382AInvasive ductal carcinoma
F361AInvasive ductal carcinoma
F578AInvasive ductal carcinoma
F550CInvasive ductal carcinoma
F430CIntraductal carcinoma

Garcia et al. (2003) [16]F443PInvasive lobular breast carcinoma with ductal and mucinous features

Chen W et al. (2004) [17]FNSNSPNS
FNS0CNS

Van der Hoeven JJ et al. (2004) [18]FNS0CDuctal carcinoma of breast

Gusakova I et al. (2007) [19]F696AInfiltrating ductal carcinoma of breast
F604AInfiltrating ductal carcinoma of breast

Tolaney SM et al. (2007) [20]F470CInvasive lobular carcinoma of breast
F512AInvasive ductal carcinoma
F310CInvasive ductal carcinoma

Ataergin S et al. (2009) [21]F7512ABreast cancer (T3N1M0)

Viswanath L et al. (2009) [22]F502AInfiltrating ductal carcinoma breast

Ito T et al. (2010) [23]F906AMetastatic breast cancer
F524AInvasive ductal carcinoma breast

Alexandrescu DT et al. (2011) [1]F728PNS
F464PNS
F465PInfiltrating ductal carcinoma of breast

Bush E et al. (2011) [24]F420CInfiltrating ductal carcinoma of breast

Nishioka M et al (2012) [25]F790CRecurrent breast cancer (local)

DeFilippis EM et al (2013) [26]F630CStage 1 breast cancer

Akhtari et al. (2014) [27]F470CDuctal invasive carcinoma

Kim et al. (2014) [28]F442ADuctal invasive carcinoma

Zivin et al. (2014) [29]F320CDuctal invasive carcinoma

Altinkaya et al. (2015) [30]F700CDuctal invasive carcinoma

Conte et al. (2015) [31]F500CDuctal invasive carcinoma

El Hammoumi (2015) [32]F513ALobular carcinoma breast

Chen J et al. (2015) [33]F627AInfiltrating ductal carcinoma
F540CInfiltrating ductal carcinoma
F5024PInfiltrating ductal carcinoma
F6334PInfiltrating ductal carcinoma
F779PInfiltrating ductal carcinoma

Present caseF490CRecurrent metastatic breast cancer

F: female, patient age: age at concurrent disease diagnosis, interval b/t diseases: interval between both diseases (sarcoidosis and breast cancer).
P: preceded breast cancer diagnosis; C: occurred concomitantly with breast cancer diagnosis; A: occurred after breast cancer diagnosis.