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Re: blood transfusion/breast trauma lead to breast cancer?

From: Hannah (anonymous@obgyn.net)
Tue, 13 Mar 2001 15:18:17 -0500 (EST)

Dear Kathleen- There are very rare reported cases of cancer after trauma;they are usually related to burn scars evolving into skin cancers later in life. More than likely, the episodes of blood transfusions and the diagnoses of cancer in you and your mother were coincidences. What CAN sometimes happen is that a tumor,which is more vascular (has more blood vessels) than the surrounding tissue,is growing quietly UNTIL a trauma to the area causes a bleed. So, in your case, it may be fortunate that the accident caused a bleed that called attention to the small tumor in the area. Please include the references from the JAMA and NEJM articles you are citing. It would be interesting to read the information. Thank you. Hannah Brooks, MD, FACS

Subject: Re: blood transfusion/breast trauma lead to breast cancer? Date: 03/12/2001 06:53pm

I was in a major car accident in 1999, at the age of 42. I needed surgery, which required my accepting 3 ccs of plasma. I also had major breast trauma from the seat belt, which took over a month to heal. Seven months later, I had a routine mammogram, which showed a solid mass. Two weeks later, I was diagnosed with a very small cancer. Had a lumpectomy for the -1/4" tumor. Has this happened to anyone else? Do you think a breast trauma can lead to a cancer? I know that the stress can accelerate the tumor cells that everyone has in their body, but can a direct trauma do it, too? Also, there was an article in the JAMA and NEJM that two different surgeons contacted a cancer via a cut on their hands while performing an operation on a patient who later was diagnosed with a cancer? So, does this mean that blood transfusions can possibly be blamed for some cancers? That's what the JAMA is wondering. I am curious to know if either of these two possibilities has happened to other recently-diagnosed breast cancer patients. Incidentally, in December of 1999, my mother had major surgery, which required blood transfusions. Three months later during a routine mammo she, too, was diagnosed with breast cancer. Weird, right? So, please write to me at kcoll57@yahoo.com. Thanks

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