Gastric cancer pubmed, "Chirurgia (Bucharest, Romania : )"[Journal] - PubMed Result, Gastric cancer with carcinomatosis

Long-term survival in a patient with advanced gastric cancer and metachronous right-sided Long-term survival in gastric gastric cancer pubmed pubmed patient with advanced gastric cancer and metachronous right-sided colon cancer.

Rom J Morphol Embryol ; 58 4 : The coexistence of gastric cancer with metachronous colon cancer represents a rare phenomenon, and the prognosis of the patient is poor.

We present here a case of an elderly patient with primary gastric intestinal type well-differentiated adenocarcinoma pT3N0, stage IIA who developed a metachronous right-sided colon cancer diagnosed and treated after 11 years from the first surgical intervention. Histopathological and immunohistochemical examination revealed a well-differentiated adenocarcinoma strongly positive staining for cytokeratin 20 and CDX2pT3N0 stage IIA.

The patient is still alive and active after 16 years from his first surgical intervention, even though no treatment has done after the removal of his second cancer.

In conclusion, in any case of gastric cancerfirst the surgeon, and then the general practitioner should be alert to recognize a second primary tumor with different origin and to perform complete postoperative control. The gastric cancer pubmed diagnosis could lead to the patients ' best prognosis.