Case Reports

Breast cancer with brain metastases in pregnancy


 

Breast cancer during pregnancy is a therapeutic challenge. Evidence to guide management in metastatic breast cancer during pregnancy is limited, mainly because of a lack of randomized trials. Care needs to be individualized with interdisciplinary collaboration. We present the case of a young woman with HER2/neu overexpressed inflammatory breast cancer who became pregnant while on treatment, refused termination of pregnancy, and developed brain metastasis during the second trimester of pregnancy, posing a management dilemma.

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