[Metachronous primary pulmonary cancers. Apropos of a new case report].
The appearance of a second primary lung cancer more than four months after the initial cancer is called a metachronous cancer (as opposed to a synchronous cancer). We provide a case report of an epidermoid carcinoma coming more than three years after the initial diagnosis of an anaplastic small cell cancer of the lung. This second cancer developed in a different territory from the initial lesion. Amongst the hypotheses proposed chemotherapy may through an oncogenic action favour the appearance of a new type of cancer.
Piperno
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Service de Pneumologie, Hôpital Sainte-Eugénie, Centre Hospitalier Lyon-Sud, Pierre-Bénite.
Pacheco
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Gindre
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Gormand
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Perrin-Fayolle
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D000971:Antineoplastic Combined Chemotherapy Protocols / Q000009:adverse effects*; D018288:Carcinoma, Small Cell / Q000188:drug therapy* / Q000473:pathology; D002294:Carcinoma, Squamous Cell / Q000139:chemically induced* / Q000473:pathology; D006801:Humans; D008175:Lung Neoplasms / Q000139:chemically induced* / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000473:pathology; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009378:Neoplasms, Multiple Primary / Q000473:pathology*
Cancers pulmonaires primitifs métachrones. A propos d'une nouvelle observation.