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Gastrointestinal malignancies as a complication of chronic myeloid leukaemia
1Department of Haematology, Southmead Hospital, Bristol.
The British Journal of Clinical Practice
|February 1, 1990
Abstract:
A 70-year-old patient is presented who, after chemotherapy for chronic myeloid leukaemia, developed two separate gastrointestinal malignancies. His family history indicated a strong family tendency towards neoplasia, and it is speculated that this predisposition may have been potentiated by the chemotherapy or the leukaemic process itself. It is stressed that, in such cases of multiple malignancy, each condition should be treated on its own merits.