Stewart-Treves syndrome in an older woman successfully treated by metronomic chemotherapy: case report and literature survey

Abstract

The authors present the case of a 94-year-old woman suffering from a right arm angiosarcoma developed after primary breast cancer and treated with success by oral metronomic chemotherapy based on daily low doses of cyclophosphamide and prednisone. The case description is followed by a short review of actual knowledge on the subject.