Mediastinal Carcinosis Involving the Esophagus in Breast Cancer: The “Breast-Esophagus” Syndrome: Report on 25 Cases and Guidelines for Diagnosis and Treatment

Abstract

Esophageal involvement from breast cancer is usually part of a mediastinal carcinosis. Patients present with worsening dysphagia. Diagnosis and treatment are both challenging. Given the high related risk of perforation from endoscopic procedures (dilations/prostheses used in the past decades), the treatments of choice are currently hormone therapy or chemotherapy/radiotherapy