Related Experiment Video
Updated: Apr 19, 2026

Competing-Risk Nomogram for Predicting Cancer-Specific Survival in Multiple Primary Colorectal Cancer Patients after Surgery
Published on: September 27, 2024
Synchronous double cancers of the colon and the pancreas: a case report
G Li Destri1, A Giarrizzo, N Bellavia
1Department of Surgical Sciences, Organ Transplantation and Advanced Technologies, University of Catania, Italy. g.lidestri@unict.it.
Abstract:
The authors report a clinical case of a synchronous double cancer of the colon and pancreas. Having carefully examined the scarce literature, they dwell on the incidence of this disease referring to frequencies that in the literature range from 0.06% and 0.55% while considering that some series do not show any association between the two neoplasms. The authors analyze the role of the colorectal follow-up. In fact, such a follow-up, even if only providing a relative improvement in disease-free survival, has allowed for a treatment of the two certainly not-advanced tumors ensuring the patient a good prognosis. Finally, the authors analyze how endoscopic ultrasound-guided fine-needle aspiration made possible a preoperative diagnosis of small pancreatic cancer, and show that, the positive predictive value (PPV) of this method was 100%.
Related Concept Videos
Cancers Originate from Somatic Mutations in a Single Cell
Cancers Originate from Somatic Mutations in a Single Cell
Chronic Pancreatitis II: Pathophysiology
Pancreas
The broad head of the pancreas lies within the loop formed by the duodenum, while its slender body reaches towards the spleen. The tail of the pancreas is short...
Chronic Pancreatitis II: Collaborative Care
Assessment:
Tumor Progression
Colon cancer is one of the best-documented examples of tumor progression. Early mutation in the APC gene in colon cells causes a small growth on the colon wall called a polyp. With time, this polyp grows into a benign, pre-cancerous tumor. Further...

