Seven Metachronous Primary Cancers within 27 Years in a Woman

Ming-Ho Wu* and Han-Yun Wu

Department of Surgery, Tainan Municipal Hospital, Taiwan

^*Correspondance to: Ming-Ho Wu 

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Abstract:

We report a rare case of 7 metachronous primary cancers. These 7 primaries occurred within 27 years in 6 different organs including lungs, ureter, bladder, skin, colon, and breast. She aggressively underwent surgical treatments on each primary cancer and further radical surgery for recurrence of the bladder cancer. Postoperative adjuvant chemotherapy was performed for the colon cancer and other chemo radiotherapy for the breast cancer. She was well in recent 3 years follow-up except having osteoarthritis of both knees and two meningiomas.

Keywords:

Multiple cancers; Primary cancer; Metachronous cancer

Cite the Article:

Wu M-H, Wu H-Y. Seven Metachronous Primary Cancers within 27 Years in a Woman. Clin Oncol. 2019; 4: 1651 .