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<article xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" dtd-version="1.0" article-type="healthcare" lang="en"><front><journal-meta><journal-id journal-id-type="publisher">IJCRR</journal-id><journal-id journal-id-type="nlm-ta">I Journ Cur Res Re</journal-id><journal-title-group><journal-title>International Journal of Current Research and Review</journal-title><abbrev-journal-title abbrev-type="pubmed">I Journ Cur Res Re</abbrev-journal-title></journal-title-group><issn pub-type="ppub">2231-2196</issn><issn pub-type="opub">0975-5241</issn><publisher><publisher-name>Radiance Research Academy</publisher-name></publisher></journal-meta><article-meta><article-id pub-id-type="publisher-id">378</article-id><article-id pub-id-type="doi"/><article-id pub-id-type="doi-url"/><article-categories><subj-group subj-group-type="heading"><subject>Healthcare</subject></subj-group></article-categories><title-group><article-title>VITILIGO ASSOCIATED WITH BREAST CANCER - A REPORT OF TWO CASES&#13;
</article-title></title-group><contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="author"><name><surname>A.</surname><given-names>Balasubramanian</given-names></name></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author"><name><surname>Kannan</surname><given-names>N.S.</given-names></name></contrib></contrib-group><pub-date pub-type="ppub"><day>20</day><month>12</month><year>2015</year></pub-date><volume>)</volume><issue/><fpage>56</fpage><lpage>58</lpage><permissions><copyright-statement>This article is copyright of Popeye Publishing, 2009</copyright-statement><copyright-year>2009</copyright-year><license license-type="open-access" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"><license-p>This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY 4.0) Licence. You may share and adapt the material, but must give appropriate credit to the source, provide a link to the licence, and indicate if changes were made.</license-p></license></permissions><abstract><p>Aim: Aim of this study is to report two cases of generalised vitiligo (GV) who developed cancer (CA) breast.&#13;
Case Report: First case is one of CA right breast with history of GV since three years treated with right modified radical mastectomy. Other one is also a case of CA right breast with history of GV since two years treated with neoadjuvant chemotherapy and radiotherapy and followed by right modified radical mastectomy. The second patient developed fresh area of depigmentation at the site of radiotherapy.&#13;
Discussion: Even though the association of autoimmune disease (AD) and cancer is well known, there are not much of reports in the literature. The association might be incidental/coincidental or cause and effect relationship. The association might also be cancer (CA) developing in a patient of AD or development of AD in a cancer patient during or after treatment. AD may increase the risk of developing CA or reduce the risk. AD may worsen pre-existing CA or may be a sign of CA regression. Both our cases were known patients of GV who developed CA breast. One of them had developed fresh area of vitiligo after radiotherapy in the post mastectomy site.&#13;
Conclusion: Association between AD and CA is well known for a long time. But many aspects of this association with reference to incidence, exact type of association or background of such association whether genetic, environmental or post therapeutic are still not well understood. Our case reports may incite and add up for further studies on these issues..&#13;
</p></abstract><kwd-group><kwd>Autoimmune diseases</kwd><kwd> Generalised vitiligo</kwd><kwd> Association</kwd></kwd-group></article-meta></front></article>
