Reverse surgery (“first-liver approach”) for hepatic metastases from breast cancer

Abstract

Background: Hepatic resection for liver metastasis from breast cancer (LMBC) canattain long-term survival. Since BC has been a very sensitive neoplasm to chemotherapy, surgical resection of residual LMBC has presented an important role associated withsystemic therapy. Reverse approach ("first liver approach") has been performed for liver metastasis from colorectal cancer (LMCRC), mainly for multiple synchronic metastases that have presented partial response. Case report: We report a case of LMBC in young female who has undergone successful"first liver approach" after partial response tosystemic therapy. At first, it was performed open right hepatectomy with caudate lobectomy and atypical resection of three small lesions in left lobe. After two postoperative cycles of chemotherapy associated a target therapy, she has finally submitted a radical mastectomy and selective axillary lymphadenectomy. To date, thirty months after hepatic resection, she is alive without any recurrence.