Hypercalcemia in metastatic breast cancer unrelated to skeletal metastasis

Abstract

A 48-year-old woman was given a diagnosis of infiltrating ductal breast carcinoma (T2N1M0; grade I; positive for estrogen receptors, progesterone receptors and human epidermal receptor-2 [HER2] status; with 3/31 positive nodes). Treatment at that time involved left lumpectomy with axillary node