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Competing-Risk Nomogram for Predicting Cancer-Specific Survival in Multiple Primary Colorectal Cancer Patients after Surgery
Published on: September 27, 2024
[Metachronous primary cancers of the colon and stomach]
Cătălina Pricop1, L P Lefter, V Scripcariu
1Clinica a IlI-a Chirurgicală, Spitalul Universitar "Sf. Spiridon", Iaşi.
Abstract:
We report herein a case of 69 years old woman who, in the course of 11 years, developed two cancers: carcinoma of the colon fistulization in duodenum and adenocarcinoma of the stomach. No polyposis has been found. This patient successfully underwent a right hemicolectomy with pancreaticoduodenectomy (Traverso-Longmire procedure). A decade later, she suffered a total gastrectomy with distal pancreatectomy for gastric adenocarcinoma. The patient made an uneventful postoperative recovery. Although patients with primary multiple cancers are not common, it is nonetheless important for clinicians to consider the possibility of metachronous cancers in patients who were treated for a primary malignant tumor.
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