1.Incidental diagnosis of rectal cancer in a patient with papillary thyroid cancer.
Lo Tom Edward N. ; Buenaluz-Sedurante Myrna ; Panlilio Mara Teresa T.
Philippine Journal of Internal Medicine 2015;53(1):57-60
BACKGROUND: Differentiated thyroid cancer is a common endocrine malignancy with an indolent course and high overall survival rate. With more cases diagnosed early, survivors of this cancer live longer and hence are at risk of second primary cancers. In patients with known primary malignancy, work-up often focuses on the primary disease, so that coexistence of another primary malignant lesion can be missed.
CASE PRESENTATION: We report a case of a 78 year-old Filipino male diagnosed to have papillary thyroid cancer with nodal metastases presenting with an incidental rectosigmoid cancer on pre-operative workup.
TREATMENT AND OUTCOME: Patient eventually underwent complete surgical removal of both malignancies. He is currently on levothyroxine suppression therapy with no evidence of tumor recurrence for both malignancy and is on close follow-up for cancer recurrence surveillance.
CONCLUSION: Clinical vigilance for cancer screening and surveillance is mandatory for patients diagnosed with any type of primary malignancy to reduce the rate of missing secondary primary malignancy simultaneously present in the same patient , Early cancer detection might improve cancer patient's overall prognosis and eventually proved to be life-saving.
Human ; Male ; Aged ; Neoplasms ; Patients ; Prognosis ; Thyroxine
2.Guidelines for liver transplantation during the COVID pandemic in the Philippines: Joint statement of the Philippine Association of Hepato-Pancreato-Biliary Surgeons (PAHPBS) and the Hepatology Society of the Philippines (HSP), 08 December 2020.
Maria Vanessa H. De Villa ; Mara Teresa T. Panlilio ; Amornetta P. Jordan-Casupang ; Ian Homer Y. Cua ; Anthony Q. Yap ; Jade D. Jamias ; Marco M. Sumo ; Wendell Z. Espinosa ; Noruel Gerard A. Salvador ; Jennielyn C. Agcaoili-Conde ; Aldwin D. Ong ; Catherine SC Teh ; Roberto N. De Guzman
Philippine Journal of Surgical Specialties 2020;75(2):155-157