Synchronous vulvar and breast cancer : A case report

Synchronous vulvar and breast cancer is rare. A 49-year-old women presented a lesion in the the retroareolar region of the left breast and a lesion located in the vulvar region. She underwent breast conservation surgery with resection of the nipple-areola complex with axillary lymph node dissection and radical wide local vulvar excision with inguinal lymph node dissection. The pathology of the breast showed infiltrating ductal carcinoma and that of the vulva revealed squamous cell carcinoma. Only tree such cases have been previously reported.