A Case of Recurrent Breast Cancer Diagnosed from Symptomatic Metastasis to Bladder

Abstract

A woman living in the United States has approximately a one in eight chance of developing breast cancer within her lifetime. The main cause of death associated with breast cancer is from metastatic spread of the disease, with the most frequent sites of spread being the bone, brain, and lungs. The urinary bladder is an uncommon site of metastasis, rarely reported on in the literature. In this report, we present a case of recurrent metastatic breast cancer found in the urinary bladder with no other sites of metastatic spread. A thorough history should be obtained in all patients, and in patients with a previous history of cancer, reoccurrence and distant spread should be kept as a differential diagnosis.