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Angiosarcoma of the breast

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Management of Rare Adult Tumours

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Abstract

Sarcoma of the breast sarcoma is a rare disease. Different kinds of breast soft tissue sarcomas have been reported in the literature [1, 3–6, 10, 12, 13, 16, 18–26, 28–32, 34–42, 44–50] and can be divided into two main categories: primary breast sarcomas and treatment-associated breast sarcomas.

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  1. Hôpital Henri-Mondor, 51, avenue du Maréchal-de-Lattre-de-Tassigny, 94000, Créteil Cedex, France

    Yazid Belkacémi MD PhD (Professor Radiation Oncology, Deputy Head of the Department of Radiation Oncology) (Professor Radiation Oncology, Deputy Head of the Department of Radiation Oncology)

  2. Centre hospitalier universitaire Vaudoir, Rue du Bugnon, CH-1011, Lausanne, Switzerland

    René-Olivier Mirimanoff MD (Professeur Radiation Oncology, Head of the Department of Radiation Oncology) & Mahmut Ozsahin MD PhD (Associate Professor in the Department of Radiation Oncology) (Professeur Radiation Oncology, Head of the Department of Radiation Oncology) &  (Associate Professor in the Department of Radiation Oncology)

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Kirova, Y.M., Fourquet, A. (2009). Angiosarcoma of the breast. In: Belkacémi, Y., Mirimanoff, RO., Ozsahin, M. (eds) Management of Rare Adult Tumours. Springer, Paris. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-2-287-92246-6_43

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