SYNCHRONOUS LOCALLY ADVANCED BREAST-CANCER (STAGE-IIIA) AND CONTROLATERAL INFLAMMATORY BREAST-CANCER (STAGE-IIIB)

A 62-year-old woman, treated for a locally advanced breast cancer (St. III A) of the left breast by radical mastectomy and postoperative reg ional radiotherapy, five months after the diagnosis of the first neopl asia, showed and inflammatory breast cancer (St. III B) of the contral ateral breast, successively treated by chemotherapy. The occurrence, i n the same patient, of two synchronous primary breast cancers, both ad vanced at the time of diagnosis, is an uncommon event.