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Case report. Unsuspected and widespread colon cancer in a young woman
Vitorino Modesto dos Santos1, Elaine Pereira Barbiéri de Carvalho, Jacira de Azevedo Cortes
1Internal Medicine, Armed Forces Hospital (HFA), Brasilia-DF, Brazil. vitorinomodesto@gmail.com
Abstract:
Liver and lung metastasis and local lymph node invasion are reported in a 26-year-old Brazilian woman with an asymptomatic colon cancer. She was admitted complaining of right upper quadrant pain, and the diagnostic procedures revealed an unsuspected adenocarcinoma (stage IV) in the descending colon. This malignancy is more frequent in patients older than 40 years, but it usually follows a more aggressive course in young people. Late detection of colon cancer usually results in worst prognosis [corrected]
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