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. 2016 Feb 17;11(4):2502–2506. doi: 10.3892/ol.2016.4238

Invasive ductal carcinoma within borderline phyllodes tumor with lymph node metastases: A case report and review of the literature

DI WU 1, HAIPENG ZHANG 2, LIANG GUO 3, XU YAN 3, ZHIMIN FAN 1,
PMCID: PMC4812231  PMID: 27073506

Abstract

Phyllodes tumor (PT) is a rare type of biphasic fibroepithelial neoplasm that may coexist with a breast tumor in rare cases. In the current study, a 52-year-old female presented with a left breast lump. Mammography and sonographic examination results suggested a diagnosis of malignant tumor. Histological analysis revealed a borderline PT with invasive ductal carcinoma (IDC) within the tumor. Due to the presence of a single micrometastasis in three of the sentinel lymph nodes, the patient underwent modified radical mastectomy. The excised tumor contained triple negative breast cancer; therefore, postoperative treatment included six cycles of chemotherapy and 25 cycles of radiotherapy. The patient exhibited no recurrence and no metastatic disease at the 23-month follow-up examination. Thus, the present study discussed the case of a female patient that presented with IDC within borderline PT and reviewed the literature on this rare type of neoplasm. Various types of breast carcinoma have been identified to coexist with PT in different masses; however, no standard therapeutic regimen has been established for the coexistence of PT and breast cancer in the same mass. The present study indicates that determination of an appropriate treatment strategy predominantly depends on the characteristics of the individual breast tumor.

Keywords: phyllodes tumor, breast cancer, coexist, diagnosis, treatment

Introduction

Phyllodes tumor (PT) is a rare type of biphasic fibroepithelial neoplasm that accounts for <1% of all breast tumors and represents 2–3% of fibroepithelial neoplasms (1,2) with a peak age of incidence of 45–49 years (3,4). According to the standards set by the World Health Organization (WHO), PTs may be classified as benign, borderline or malignant based on the degree of stromal cell atypia, mitotic status, degree of stromal overgrowth, tumor necrosis and appearance of tumor margins (5). PTs are predominantly benign with only ~10% identified as malignant. The majority of malignant transformation of PTs typically occurs in the stromal compartment and rarely in the epithelial compartment. Breast carcinoma within PT accounts for 1–2% of all PTs (6). Surgery is considered the standard treatment for PT (7). Invasive ductal carcinomas (IDC) of the breast accounts for 80% of all breast cancers, and these tumors demonstrate a worse survival rate than invasive lobular carcinoma (8), with overall 5-year survival rates of 84.1 and 85.6%, respectively (9). An IDC that is incidentally found within a borderline PT has been reported only once before in the literature (10). The current study presents a case of IDC within a borderline PT, and reviews 32 cases of breast carcinoma within a PT that have been reported in the literature.

Case report

In July 2012, a 52-year-old female presented to the Department of Breast Surgery, First Hospital of Jilin University (Changchun, China) with a firm, palpable, irregularly-shaped lump with an ill-defined margin in the outer upper quadrant of the left breast. The lump, which was originally identified by the patient 6 months previously, had increased in size from 1.5×1.0 cm at presentation to 2.5×2.0 cm after 3 months. Physical examination revealed that the tumor did not adhere to or invade the overlying skin or the thoracic wall. Enlarged axillary lymph nodes were not identified upon physical examination. Mammography imaging revealed a high-density mass with a diameter of 2.5 cm and an irregular margin (Fig. 1), and sonographic examination demonstrated a partially ill-defined hypoechoic mass with a diameter of 2.1 cm (Fig. 2). A core needle biopsy revealed borderline or malignant PT with a breast carcinoma component.

Figure 1.

Figure 1.

Mammography image revealing a high-density mass with an irregular margin and a diameter of 2.5 cm in the outer upper quadrant of the left breast. The mass was determined as grade 4, according to the Breast Imaging Reporting and Data System classification.

Figure 2.

Figure 2.

Sonographic examination revealing an irregular, partially ill-defined, hypoechoic mass with a diameter of 2.1 cm. The mass was diagnosed as grade 4B, according to the Breast Imaging Reporting and Data System classification.

The diagnosis was determined by analysis of the core needle biopsy, as follows. The tumor was well-circumscribed and 3.0×2.5×1.2 cm in size, according to macroscopic examination. The mitotic count in the most active area was 2–4 mitoses per 10 high-powered fields. Based on an increase in the number of mitotic figures and according to the WHO 2003 grading system (11), the tumor was classified as a borderline PT. IDC was also observed in a focal area of spindle cells (Fig. 3). The results of MaxVision™ immunohistochemical staining (Fuzhou Maixin Biotechnology Development Co., Ltd., Fuzhou, China) of the IDC cells were as follows: Estrogen receptor negative; progesterone receptor negative; HER-2 negative; Ki-67 index, 30%; cytokeratin (CK) 5/6 positive; vimentin positive; and pan-CK positive (Fig. 4).

Figure 3.

Figure 3.

Invasive ductal carcinoma (black arrow) detected within a region of spindle cells (blue arrow) in the phyllodes tumor (hematoxylin and eosin stain; magnification, x100).

Figure 4.

Figure 4.

Immunohistochemical staining of the invasive ductal carcinoma, revealing positive pan-cytokeratin expression (stain, hematoxylin and eosin; magnification, x100).

Considering the diagnosis of IDC within a borderline PT, a simple mastectomy and sentinel lymph node biopsy (SLNB) were performed on July 10, 2012. Intraoperative frozen pathological analysis of 3 of the sentinel lymph nodes (SLNs) identified one micrometastasis. An axillary lymph node dissection and subsequent pathological examination did not reveal metastasis in any of the 18 nodes tested. The patient underwent six cycles of chemotherapy cycled every 21 days, consisting of 75 mg/m2 paclitaxel, 75 mg/m2 pirarubicin and 500 mg/m2 cyclophosphamide, all administered on day 1. In addition, the patient underwent seven weeks of radiotherapy (25 cycles at 5,000 cGy; 200 cGy, each treatment). The tumor did not recur and no metastasis was observed during the first 23 months subsequent to treatment.

Discussion

PT may coexist with breast cancer in three situations. It may coexist in the bilateral breast, for example with IDC in one breast and a malignant PT in the other breast (12). PT has also been detected in the ipsilateral breast, such as IDC in the upper outer quadrant of the left breast and malignant PT in the lower outer quadrant of the left breast (13). Finally, PT may coexist with breast cancer in the same mass, as occurred in the current case. Breast carcinoma arising within PT is extremely rare. A literature search of the PubMed database (www.pubmed.com) was performed using the following search terms: ‘breast cancer with phyllodes tumor’ and ‘coexistence of breast cancer and phyllodes tumor’. A total of 1,593 studies were retrieved. Using the following criteria, it was determined that <40 cases of breast carcinoma arising within PT have previously been reported in the literature (Table I) (1,2,7,8,10,11,1438). Inclusion criteria: i) published between 1974 and 2013; ii) English language; and iii) PT coexisting with breast cancer in the same tumor. Exclusion criteria: i) PT and breast cancer coexisting in the bilateral breast; ii) PT and breast cancer coexisting in the ipsilateral breast in different tumors; iii) no detailed pathological results; and iv) only the abstract available in English, full-text in a different language. The age of the patients with a coexistent breast carcinoma and PT ranged between 26 and 80 years, with a median age of 52 years. The reported breast carcinoma subtypes included in situ and invasive lobular and ductal (no specific type) carcinoma, invasive tubular carcinoma, squamous cell carcinoma and invasive cribriform carcinoma. Malignant epithelial elements were reported in all types of PT. Breast carcinoma was most commonly reported in malignant (n=14) and benign (n=15) PTs, but rarely in borderline PTs (n=4, including the present case). Of the three cases of borderline PTs reported (excluding the present case), Kuo et al presented the case of a patient with a painless mass in the left breast, which had been present for 4 years. Following rapid growth of the tumor, the patient was diagnosed with invasive ductal carcinoma arising within a phyllodes tumor with isolated tumor cells identified in the sentinel lymph node (19). Mastectomy and sentinel lymph node biopsy were performed followed by hormonal therapy (goserelin acetate and tamoxifen), adjuvant chemotherapy (5-fluorouracil, epirubicin and cyclophosphamide) and reconstructive surgery. No tumor recurrence was reported during the 15 month follow-up period. Quinlan-Davidson et al (18) reported the case of a patient with a painless mass in the right breast that had been present for several years. Following two years of rapid growth of the mass the patient was diagnosed with borderline phyllodes tumor with an incidental invasive tubular carcinoma and lobular carcinoma in situ component. An excisional biopsy was performed and subsequently the patient underwent a re-excision for margin safety and a sentinel lymph node biopsy, which revealed that all three sentinel lymph nodes were negative for malignancy. In addition, Deodhar et al (32) reported a case of borderline phyllodes tumor with a ductal carcinoma in situ (DCIS) component. However, the outcome of the patient was not reported. Coexisting breast carcinoma within PTs more commonly demonstrated a ductal phenotype (IDC, n=7; DCIS, n=15) compared with a lobular phenotype (ILC, n=1; lobular carcinoma in situ, n=7). A pure carcinoma in situ element was identified in 17 cases and was determined to be invasive in the other 16 cases. In addition, 6 cases were found to possess two types of malignant epithelial elements (6,1418). The PT size was not described in one case and the mean diameter of the tumor was 7.9±5.3 cm. Yamaguchi et al (1) reported 7 cases of DCIS in PTs with a mean tumor size of 11.9 cm (15). Nio et al (23) reported that the mean diameter of breast carcinoma within PTs was 8.0 cm (14). The carcinoma size of the present case could not be measured.

Table I.

Occurrence of breast carcinoma within PT.

PT Breast carcinoma


No. First author (Ref.) Year Age, years Surgery AxDs Type Diameter, cm Type Diameter, cm LNI, n Survival status Follow-up time, months
  1 Leong et al (26) 1980 49 LoEx (−) Benign   6.0 LCIS NA NA NA NA
  2 Leong et al (26) 1980 51 MX (+) Benign   4.0 ITC NA (−) Alive   21
  3 Cole-Beuglet et al (14) 1983 55 LoEx (−) Benign   3.5 DCIS + LCIS NA NA NA NA
  4 Cole-Beuglet et al (14) 1983 60 LoEx (−) Benign   3.0 IDC NA NA NA NA
  5 Grove et al (27) 1986 71 MX (+) Benign 19.0 DCIS 2.0 (−) Alive   4
  6 Ishida et al (10) 1984 41 MX (−) Benign   5.6 IDC Focal NA Alive   30
  7 Ward et al (28) 1986 55 MX NA Benign   4.0 LCIS Focal NA NA NA
  8 Knudsen et al (15) 1987 71 MX (+) Benign   7.0 DCIS + LCIS Multi-focal (−) Alive   6
  9 Yasumura et al (29) 1988 47 MX (+) Benign 13.0 IDC NA (−) Alive   66
10 Kodama et al (30) 2003 47 MX (−) Benign 17.0 LCIS Focal NA Alive 108
11 Parfitt et al (16) 2004 26 LoEx (+) Benign   3.3 DCIS + IDC NA (+)4/13 Alive   36
12 Ramdass et al (31) 2006 69 NA NA Benign NA SCC NA NA NA NA
13 Yamaguchi et al (1) 2008 54 MX (−) Benign 15.0 DCIS Focal NA Alive   12
14 Nio et al (23) 2011 53 LoEx (−) Benign   3.5 DCIS 0.5 NA Alive   24
15 Shirah et al (17) 2011 49 LoEx Benign   4.8 LCIS + ILC 0.2 NA NA NA
16 Deodhar et al (32) 1997 51 LoEx (−) Borderline 14.0 DCIS Focal NA NA NA
17 Kuo et al (19) 2010 26 MX SLNB Borderline 10.0 IDC 2.5 ITC Alive   15
18 Quinlan-Davidson et al (18) 2011 53 LoEx SLNB Borderline   6.5 ITC + LCIS 2.4 (−) NA NA
19 Present case 2014 52 MX (+) Borderline   3.0 IDC Focal (+)1/21 Alive   23
20 Seemayer et al (33) 1975 27 MX (−) Malignant   6.0 DCIS Focal NA NA NA
21 Klausner et al (34) 1983 60 MX (+) Malignant   4.0 IDC Focal (−) NA NA
22 Hunger et al (35) 1984 57 MX (+) Malignant 15.5 SCC NA (−) NA NA
23 Schwickerath et al (7) 1992 47 MX (+) Malignant   2.0 DCIS NA (−) NA NA
24 Padmanabhan et al (2) 1997 47 MX (+) Malignant   7.5 LCIS Focal (−) Alive   6
25 Nishimura et al (24) 1998 80 LoEx (−) Malignant 10.5 DCIS NA NA Deceased   3
26 Alò et al (36) 2001 39 MX NA Malignant   9.0 DCIS NA NA NA NA
27 Lim et al (25) 2005 45 MX (−) Malignant 12.0 DCIS 0.6 NA Deceased 108
28 Nomura et al (37) 2006 75 MX (−) Malignant   3.5 DCIS NA NA Alive   32
29 Sugie et al (20) 2007 54 MX (+) Malignant   8.0 SCC NA (−) Deceased   40
30 Korula et al (21) 2008 51 MX (+) Malignant 21.0 DCIS NA (+)2/12 Alive   11
31 Macher-Goeppinger et al (38) 2010 70 MX (+) Malignant   6.0 IDC 2.5 (−) NA NA
32 Abdul Aziz et al (6) 2010 43 LoEx (−) Malignant   3.5 ITC + DCIS 0.2 NA Alive   12
33 Choi et al (22) 2012 62 MX (+) Malignant 10.0 ICC 6.0 (−) Alive   24

AxDs, axillary dissection; DCIS, ductal carcinoma in situ; ICC, invasive cribriform carcinoma; IDC, invasive ductal carcinoma; ILC, invasive lobular carcinoma; ITC, invasive tubular carcinoma; LCIS, lobular carcinoma in situ; LNI, lymph node involvement; LoEx, local excision; MX, mastectomy; NA, not available; PT, phyllodes tumor; Ref., reference; SCC, squamous cell carcinoma.

In the previously reported literature, 10 cases were treated with local excision and 23 cases were treated with mastectomy. Of the 16 cases that received axillary surgery, three cases exhibited axillary lymph node metastasis and one possessed an isolated tumor cell in the SLN. As there is no standard adjuvant treatment strategy for this type of disease, a variety of systemic therapies were applied to the various cases. In total, 6 cases received chemotherapy with various regimens (16,1923), 5 cases received radiotherapy (13,16,18,20), and 4 cases received endocrine therapy, 3 of which received tamoxifen (1,16,21) and 1 received tamoxifen and goserelin (19). Patient outcomes were described in 19 cases. The follow-up time was between 3 and 108 months. In total, 16 patients were alive at the end of last follow-up. Distance metastasis occurred in the lung in 2 cases at 3 and 32 months subsequent to surgery, respectively (20,24). Similar to the current case, Kuo et al (19) and Parfitt et al (16) reported the combination of surgery, chemotherapy and radiotherapy for patients with lymph node metastasis who present breast carcinoma within PT. In addition, 3 cases succumbed to the disease, 3, 40 and 108 months subsequent to surgery, respectively (20,24,25) (Table I).

In summary, the present study reports a rare case of IDC within a borderline PT. The imaging experiments performed lacked specificity. Instead, histology and immunohistochemistry are the golden standard for diagnosing this type of disease. The combination treatment of surgery, chemotherapy and radiotherapy was effective in the current case. Various types of breast carcinoma have been identified to coexist with PT in different masses; however, no standard therapeutic regimen has been established for the coexistence of PT and breast cancer in the same mass. The determination of an appropriate treatment strategy predominantly depends on the characteristics of the individual breast tumor, such as the hormone receptor status, HER-2 status and axillary lymph node metastasis status. Thus, future cases should undergo detailed analysis of tumor characteristics with reference to the molecular subtype and clinical pathological characteristics in order to select the optimal treatment strategy for breast cancer within phyllodes tumors.

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