Comment on "Gastric and colon metastasis from breast cancer: case report, review of the literature, and possible underlying mechanisms’’

Abstract

Amin Talebi Bezmin Abadi Department of Bacteriology, Faculty of Medical Sciences, Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran, IranI have read the interesting case report by Villa Guzmán et al recently published in Breast Cancer (Dove Med Press).1 A female heavy smoker was diagnosed with lobular breast cancer. The authors hypothesized that Helicobacter pylori infection can attract chemokines attributed with local inflammation which ends in tumor cells’ migration. Concerning H. pylori and the presented hypothesis, I have some points which are listed as follows.Read the original article by Villa Guzmán and colleagues.

Keywords

• Helicobacter pylori eradication
• Breast cancer
• treatment
• cell migration