CASE REPORT article
Front. Oncol.
Sec. Breast Cancer
A Case Report of Tumor-Associated Liver Injury alleviated with antineoplastic drug
Provisionally accepted
- Second Hospital of Tianjin Medical University, Tianjin, China
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Tumors are the major diseases that threaten people's health and life at present. Liver injury often happens in patients with cancer, and which mostly attribute to application of anti-cancer drugs. However, some cases caused by the infiltration and destruction of metastatic cancer, and anti-tumor drugs play a key role in restoring liver function instead of inducing drug induced liver injury (DILI). This article reports a case of tumor-associated Liver Injury (TALI) who suffered HER2-negative metastatic breast cancer with liver metastasis, but her liver function was recovery after treatment with Alpelisib, an anti-tumor drug, as meanwhile as achieving anti-tumor. Through this case we aims to emphasize to differentiate the causes of TALI and make the treatment strategies accordingly.
Keywords: tumor, metastases, liver injury, anti-tumor, therapy
Received: 24 Jun 2025; Accepted: 06 Nov 2025.
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* Correspondence: Xu Liang, xuyangliang2004@sina.com
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