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Successful treatment of triple primary tumor()()

INTRODUCTION: The occurrence of multiple primary tumors is rare. Only limited number of cases with triple malignancy have been reported. We report here a rare case of a woman presented synchronous triple tumors, in her lung, breast, skin. PRESENTATION OF CASE: A 56-year-old woman presented with inva...

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Autores principales: Kurul, Sidika, Akgun, Zuleyha, Saglam, Esra Kaytan, Basaran, Mert, Yucel, Serap, Tuzlali, Sitki
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier 2013
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3825933/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24091078
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ijscr.2013.08.010
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author Kurul, Sidika
Akgun, Zuleyha
Saglam, Esra Kaytan
Basaran, Mert
Yucel, Serap
Tuzlali, Sitki
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description INTRODUCTION: The occurrence of multiple primary tumors is rare. Only limited number of cases with triple malignancy have been reported. We report here a rare case of a woman presented synchronous triple tumors, in her lung, breast, skin. PRESENTATION OF CASE: A 56-year-old woman presented with invasive ductal carcinoma of breast, non-small cell lung cancer and malignant melanoma. The patient undergone mastectomy and malignant melanoma tumor excision on-site. After operation stereotactic radiotherapy was given to her lung tumor. Six course of chemotherapy was given to her. She is alive with no progression. DISCUSSION: The patient was diagnosed with melanoma and staging by FDG/PET. There is not any study about routine using PET/CT in the melanoma staging. CONCLUSION: This is a very rare synchronous triple tumor case.
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spelling pubmed-38259332013-11-13 Successful treatment of triple primary tumor()() Kurul, Sidika Akgun, Zuleyha Saglam, Esra Kaytan Basaran, Mert Yucel, Serap Tuzlali, Sitki Int J Surg Case Rep Article INTRODUCTION: The occurrence of multiple primary tumors is rare. Only limited number of cases with triple malignancy have been reported. We report here a rare case of a woman presented synchronous triple tumors, in her lung, breast, skin. PRESENTATION OF CASE: A 56-year-old woman presented with invasive ductal carcinoma of breast, non-small cell lung cancer and malignant melanoma. The patient undergone mastectomy and malignant melanoma tumor excision on-site. After operation stereotactic radiotherapy was given to her lung tumor. Six course of chemotherapy was given to her. She is alive with no progression. DISCUSSION: The patient was diagnosed with melanoma and staging by FDG/PET. There is not any study about routine using PET/CT in the melanoma staging. CONCLUSION: This is a very rare synchronous triple tumor case. Elsevier 2013-08-27 /pmc/articles/PMC3825933/ /pubmed/24091078 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ijscr.2013.08.010 Text en © 2013 The Authors http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-No Derivative Works License, which permits non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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