Fungating Metastatic Breast Cancer, a Challenging Case Report of Bleeding Control and Palliative Wound Care

Haynes Addison; Simman Richard

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Fungating Metastatic Breast Cancer, a Challenging Case Report of Bleeding Control and Palliative Wound Care

Haynes Addison, Simman Richard

Published in European Journal of Preventive Medicine (Volume 2, Issue 3)

Received: 7 May 2014 Accepted: 29 May 2014 Published: 10 June 2014

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Abstract

This case will discuss the palliative care in an advanced metastatic and fungating breast cancer. As sometimes happens, patients elect to go with different means of treatment and not the mastectomy with lymph node dissection, radiation, and chemotherapy that is the standard of care. Even though the patient elected not to attempt the full surgery, there are still surgical options that could have helped her quality of life and are important to consider. Wound care can be curative for many different wounds but can also greatly improve the quality of life that is present. Wounds leave the body exposed to secondary infections and can produce foul odor which is not conducive to patient or family comfort and happiness. It can be used in conjunction with many different treatments and should not be forgotten in the treatment of all patients. In this case we also discussed a variety of methods for bleeding control of this cancerous mass.

Published in	European Journal of Preventive Medicine (Volume 2, Issue 3)
DOI	10.11648/j.ejpm.20140203.11
Page(s)	29-32
Creative Commons	This is an Open Access article, distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, provided the original work is properly cited.
Copyright	Copyright © The Author(s), 2014. Published by Science Publishing Group

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Fungating Breast Cancer, Palliative Wound Care, Bleeding Control

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Haynes Addison, Simman Richard. (2014). Fungating Metastatic Breast Cancer, a Challenging Case Report of Bleeding Control and Palliative Wound Care. European Journal of Preventive Medicine, 2(3), 29-32. https://doi.org/10.11648/j.ejpm.20140203.11

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Haynes Addison; Simman Richard. Fungating Metastatic Breast Cancer, a Challenging Case Report of Bleeding Control and Palliative Wound Care. Eur. J. Prev. Med. 2014, 2(3), 29-32. doi: 10.11648/j.ejpm.20140203.11

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Haynes Addison, Simman Richard. Fungating Metastatic Breast Cancer, a Challenging Case Report of Bleeding Control and Palliative Wound Care. Eur J Prev Med. 2014;2(3):29-32. doi: 10.11648/j.ejpm.20140203.11

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Haynes Addison

Grandview Medical Center, Dayton Ohio, Clinical Instructor, CORE Group IV faculty, Ohio University Heritage College of Osteopathic Medicine
Simman Richard

Clinical Associate Professor in Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Associate Research Professor, Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology at Wright State University Boonshoft School of Medicine, Dayton, Ohio

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Haynes Addison; Simman Richard. Fungating Metastatic Breast Cancer, a Challenging Case Report of Bleeding Control and Palliative Wound Care. Eur. J. Prev. Med. 2014, 2(3), 29-32. doi: 10.11648/j.ejpm.20140203.11

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Haynes Addison, Simman Richard. Fungating Metastatic Breast Cancer, a Challenging Case Report of Bleeding Control and Palliative Wound Care. Eur J Prev Med. 2014;2(3):29-32. doi: 10.11648/j.ejpm.20140203.11

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