Response of postmastectomy lymphangiosarcoma to radiotherapy: report of four cases
Appelqvist, P.; Salmo, M.; Rissanen, P.; Wiklund, T.
Strahlentherapie und Onkologie Organ der Deutschen Rontgengesellschaft . 166(3): 194-198
1990
ISSN/ISBN: 0179-7158 PMID: 2109355 Document Number: 355169
We have reported on four previously unpublished cases of postmastectomy lymphangiosarcoma. All of these cases had suffered from a long-lasting lymphedema of the upper extremity. Only one patient had survived over one year. After radiotherapy she lived four years from first lesion of lymphangiosarcoma. She died locally disease-free in spite of two earlier recurrences, which were also treated with radiotherapy. We believe that only in early cases can the radiotherapy give a good palliation in postmastectomy lymphangiosarcoma.