India, Nov. 28 -- A 62-year-old woman diagnosed with two advanced-stage 4 breast cancers and a tumor was treated through targeted therapies. Doctors said that the patient was in severe pain and had a medical history of a silent lump growing in her lungs recently recovered from the rare complex malignancies found after an accurate diagnosis and coordinated treatment.

According to experts, it was discovered through PET-CT scan and biopsy that the lung tumor was an independent malignancy known as "neuroenocrine tumor" in medical terms, which does not spread from breast cancer and requires separate therapy.

"Most patients and physicians assume that a lung tumor in advanced breast cancer is a spread of the same disease. In this case, careful...