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Double Digest: A Rare Case Report of Amphicrine Gastric Carcinoma Co-occurring With Papillary Thyroid Carcinoma
Dominique M Ebedes1, Samer Ganam2, Joseph A Sujka3,1
1Surgery, University of South Florida Morsani College of Medicine, Tampa, USA.
Abstract:
With improved cancer treatments and patient lifespans, the incidence of a second cancer diagnosis in a person's lifetime is increasing. While dual cancer diagnoses during one's lifetime are becoming more common, diagnosis with two separate cancers simultaneously is less so. In this report we present a 55-year-old obese woman with a history of chronic lymphocytic thyroiditis and a non-specific family history of thyroid cancer who received synchronous diagnoses of amphicrine carcinoma (AC) and papillary thyroid carcinoma (PTC) during work-up for bariatric surgery. AC is a very rare form of gastric cancer characterized by the presence of both endocrine and epithelial cell components within the same cell with only a few case reports in the literature. This is the first case report to present the co-occurrence of AC with PTC.
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