Multiple Metachronous Malignancies: One Patient with Five Primary Malignancies
10.3904/kjm.2019.94.1.114
- Author:
Sung Yun LEE
1
;
Byung Ik KIM
;
Hong Ju KIM
;
Kwan Joong JOO
;
Sang Hyuk LEE
;
Chang Hak YOO
;
Dong Hoon KIM
Author Information
1. Department of Internal Medicine, Kangbuk Samsung Hospital, Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine, Seoul, Korea. bik.kim@samsung.com
- Publication Type:Case Report
- From:Korean Journal of Medicine
2019;94(1):114-118
- CountryRepublic of Korea
- Language:English
-
Abstract:
We report a case of a 73-year-old male with multiple, metachronous primary malignancies. He presented with adenocarcinoma of the stomach with transverse colon invasion followed by bladder cancer, hypopharyngeal cancer, urothelial cancer, and hepatocellular carcinoma, in that order, over 10 years. While these multiples malignancies were separate entities, they shared several etiologic factors, including smoking. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first description of five metachronous malignancies in a Korean patient.
