Abstract:A 49-years-old female presented with severe persistent headache. Further evaluation unraveled fungating right breast mass and a new diagnosis of poorly differentiated invasive ductal carcinoma with brain metastasis as the cause of the symptoms was made. Diagnosis of breast cancer with large fungating mass and brain metastasis on presentation in this era is still shocking. It makes us question the reasons behind these unfortunate presentations which include but are not limited to: unawareness about the risk fac… Show more
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