Four different malignancies in one patient: a case report

Cancer survivors have a higher risk of new primary cancer, in the same or in another organ, than the general population. We report a 78-year-old women who has metachronous quadruple adenocarcinoma, includes bilateral breast cancer, ovarian cancer and retroperitoneal neuroendocrine carcinoma. The dev...

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Autores principales: Demirci, Umut, Coşkun, Ugur, Göçün, Pinar Uyar, Gurlek, Bahar, Saka, Burcu, Öztürk, Banu, Benekli, Mustafa, Büyükberber, Süleyman
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2010
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2825507/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20205852
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1757-1626-3-53
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Sumario:Cancer survivors have a higher risk of new primary cancer, in the same or in another organ, than the general population. We report a 78-year-old women who has metachronous quadruple adenocarcinoma, includes bilateral breast cancer, ovarian cancer and retroperitoneal neuroendocrine carcinoma. The development of second cancer in cancer survivors can be expected but third or higher order malignancies are rare.

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