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Inflammatory breast cancer is a rare presentation of invasive breast cancer and has a poor prognosis. After a thorough workup, including imaging and a biopsy which demonstrates involved dermal lymphatics, the patient should begin neoadjuvant chemotherapy. Total mastectomy and axillary node dissection are the most likely course of surgical management. Patients who are either ER/PR or HER-2/neu positive may benefit from the addition of targeted therapy, although most inflammatory cancers are triple negative. Patients are at significant risk of recurrence and/or metastatic disease and should be followed closely.
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Gooch, J.C., Schnabel, F. (2019). Inflammatory Breast Cancer. In: Docimo Jr., S., Pauli, E. (eds) Clinical Algorithms in General Surgery . Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-98497-1_28
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