Kefah Mokbel, Chair of The Multidisciplinary Breast Cancer Program at London Breast Institute, shared on LinkedIn:
“For patients reluctant to undergo core biopsy for suspected breast cancer due to fears that the cancer could spread, I explain that local trauma generated by the diagnostic percutaneous biopsy could trigger an immune response causing tumor regression.
This case report highlights this phenomenon.”
Authors: Eduardo De Faria Castro Fleury, Jose Augusto de Sousa Neto, Sheila Cristina L Wludarski, Edson M Barbosa
