Journal of VolgSMU
Quarterly scientific-practical journal

UDK: 616-006

METASTASIS OF BREAST CANCER IN THE INGUINAL LYMPH NODES. CLINICAL CASES

N.V. Kovalenko1,2, T.F. Deviatchenko2, M.A. Balabina1, S.A. Omelchenko1

1ГБУЗ «Волгоградский областной клинический онкологический диспансер»; 2ФГБОУ ВО «Волгоградский государственный медицинский университет» Министерства здравоохранения Российской Федерации

Abstract

Metastasis, the spread of cancer cells from the primary tumor to distant organs and their treatment-resistant proliferation in multiplelocations, remains a major clinical and biological challenge. The genetics of breast cancer metastasis is a very complexfield of study. It is relatively new and expanding [5]. This article describes the clinical cases of metastasis of breast cancer in the inguinal lymph nodes with the progression of the disease after radical treatment and the primary disseminated process with the defeat of inguinal lymph nodes.

Keywords

breast cancer, metastasis to the inguinal lymph nodes.

Contacts

Девятченко Татьяна Федоровна – к. м. н., доцент кафедры онкологии, гематологии и трансплантологии ИНМФО, Волгоградский государственный медицинский университет, e-mail: dtf-onco@mail.ru