title: Five primary cancers in one patient.
abstract: We report a 62-year-old man with five primary cancers. He underwent nephrectomy for a right renal cell carcinoma and removal of malignant meningioma and 6 years later was diagnosed as having a rectal cancer and hepatocellular carcinoma. He died of respiratory failure and a gastric cancer was found at autopsy.
authors.affiliation: First Department of Surgery, Okayama University Medical School, Japan.
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Kimura
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Iwagaki
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Fuchimoto
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Hizuta
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Orita
mesh_terms: D000230:Adenocarcinoma; D006528:Carcinoma, Hepatocellular; D002292:Carcinoma, Renal Cell; D006801:Humans; D007680:Kidney Neoplasms; D008113:Liver Neoplasms; D008297:Male; D008577:Meningeal Neoplasms; D008579:Meningioma; D008875:Middle Aged; D009378:Neoplasms, Multiple Primary; D012004:Rectal Neoplasms; D013274:Stomach Neoplasms