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Double primary cancers registered in a tertiary care hospital: review of two cases Cover

Double primary cancers registered in a tertiary care hospital: review of two cases

Open Access
|Aug 2014

Abstract

In our centre, among 1965 registered cancer patients between May 2011 and December 2013, we report three cases with multiple primary malignant neoplasms. One of them was excluded due to lack of data, and so we present the remaining two cases. The first case is an 82-year-old female patient with colon and thyroid cancer and the second case is a 61-year-old female patient with colon and breast cancer. Both cases were metachronous and discovered accidently during the regular follow up, and managed with a curative intent. Conclusion: It is important for the clinicians to keep in mind that individuals with cancer are at increased risk for subsequent primary malignancies, which must be differentiated from recurrent or metastatic disease.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/fco-2014-0002 | Journal eISSN: 1792-362X | Journal ISSN: 1792-345X
Language: English
Page range: 6 - 10
Published on: Aug 14, 2014
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services
Publication frequency: 2 issues per year

© 2014 Amrallah A. Mohammad, Abdullah S. Al-Zahrani, Hani M. El-Khatib, published by Helenic Society of Medical Oncology
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