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Review
. 2020 Feb:49:87-92.
doi: 10.1016/j.breast.2019.11.002. Epub 2019 Nov 11.

Mucinous breast cancer: A narrative review of the literature and a retrospective tertiary single-centre analysis

Emilia Marrazzo  1 , Federico Frusone  2 , Flavio Milana  1 , Andrea Sagona  1 , Wolfgang Gatzemeier  1 , Erika Barbieri  1 , Alberto Bottini  1 , Giuseppe Canavese  1 , Arianna Olga Rubino  1 , Marco Gaetano Eboli  1 , Carlo Marco Rossetti  1 , Alberto Testori  3 , Valentina Errico  3 , Alessandro De Luca  4 , Corrado Tinterri  1
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Mucinous breast cancer: A narrative review of the literature and a retrospective tertiary single-centre analysis

Emilia Marrazzo et al. Breast. 2020 Feb.

Abstract

Mucinous carcinoma (MC) is a rare breast cancer characterized by the presence of large extracellular mucin amount. Two main subtypes can be distinguished: pure (PMC) and mixed (MMC). We conducted a retrospective MC analysis in our prospective maintained database, calculating disease-free survival (DFS) and 5-year overall survival (OS). We found a global 92.1% OS (higher in MMC group and statistically significative) and a DFS of 95.3% (higher in MMC group but not statistically significative).

Keywords: Adenocarcinoma. background; Breast; Breast cancer; Breast conserving surgery; Breast neoplasms; Breast surgery; Epidemiology; Invasive breast cancer; Mastectomy; Mucinous carcinoma.

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Declaration of competing interest The authors declare that they have no conflict of interest in relation to this work.

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Overall Survival rate of PMC and MMC.
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Disease Free Survival rate of PMC and MMC.
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