Sweet syndrome in the setting of breast cancer: A literature review 2024.
34 cases of female patients with breast cancer and Sweet's syndrome (authors used a wide search range from 1950 to 2023).
Triggers for Sweet's syndrome within this setting:
- Surgery (47%)
- Medication (20%)
- Triggered by the cancer itself {paraneoplastic, 20%)
- Radiation therapy (11%).
Depending on the trigger, average time before Sweet's syndrome symptoms appeared:
- Medication (3.3 months)
- Radiation therapy (8.5 months)
- Surgery (4 years and 2 months)
- Paraneoplastic (4 years and 9 months).
26 cases of Sweet's syndrome resolved after treatment with oral steroids (65%) and steroid creams (12%).
How quickly treatments started to work.
- Medication (2.7 days)
- Radiation therapy (7 days)
- Paraneoplastic (10.5 days)
- Surgery (18.5 days)
In 5 cases (paraneoplastic), symptoms came back after inital treatment.
15 case studies mentioned breast cancer type.
- Invasive ductal carcinoma of the breast (47%)
- Metastatic carcinoma (20%)
- Adenocarcinoma (13%)
- Invasive lobular carcinoma (6%)
- Canalicular breast carcinoma (6%)
- Unspecified malignant tumor of the breast (6%). ascopubs.org/doi/10.1200/JC...
