[A case of quartet cancer--a carcinoma of the breast followed by three synchronous cancers (kidney, thyroid and colon)].
A case of a surgically treated primary quartet cancer is reported, along with a review of the Japanese literature. A 68-year-old woman, curatively operated for a right breast cancer 6 years previously, was then diagnosed as having a left renal cell carcinoma, a thyroid cancer, and a sigmoid colon cancer as a result of a subsequent screening examination within one year. These synchronous, triple cancers were resected in a curative operation for each. Histopathologically, each neoplasm was proven to be a primary cancer lesion, and two different types (papillary and trabecular) were found in the thyroid gland.
Kurihara
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2nd Dept. of Surgery, Gunma Univ. School of Med.
Ishida
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Miyamoto
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Mishima
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Suda
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Izuo
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D000230:Adenocarcinoma / Q000473:pathology* / Q000601:surgery; D002293:Adenocarcinoma, Scirrhous / Q000473:pathology* / Q000601:surgery; D000368:Aged; D001943:Breast Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology* / Q000601:surgery; D002291:Carcinoma, Papillary / Q000473:pathology* / Q000601:surgery; D002292:Carcinoma, Renal Cell / Q000473:pathology* / Q000601:surgery; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007680:Kidney Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology* / Q000601:surgery; D009378:Neoplasms, Multiple Primary; D012811:Sigmoid Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology* / Q000601:surgery; D013964:Thyroid Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology* / Q000601:surgery