An unusual presentation of an aggressive form of breast cancer: A case study

Abstract

In the case reported, a breast cancer diagnosis unfolded over several weeks during follow-up of a non-healing, non-metastatic foot phalangeal fracture. Non-healing bone fractures can be related to systemic disease including undiagnosed breast cancer. Although not found to be a metastatic lesion, once chemotherapy began the phalangeal fracture wholly healed. There were no cases or studies found in the literature describing the root cause and then restoration of non-healing, non-metastatic fractures once a breast malignancy was diagnosed and treatment initiated.