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A Case of Dual Primary Gastric and Colonic Malignancy


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1 Professor, Department of Gastroenterology IGMC- Shimla, India
2 Assistant Professor, Department of Gastroenterology, IGMC - Shimla, India
3 Associate Professor, Department of Gastroenterology, IGMC- Shimla, India
4 Senior Resident, Department of Gastroenterology, IGMC- Shimla, India
     

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Incidence of multiple primary malignant neoplasm increases with age, mainly because of an improvement in diagnostic techniques and prolonged survival of patients treated for malignancy. Multiple tumors may develop synchronously or metachronously. If the time interval between the appearances of the two neoplasms is less than 6 months, they are defined as synchronous, and if the time interval is longer than 6 months, they are classified as metachronous. Gastric cancer associated with synchronous colon cancer is very rare. We report a case of 56 year old male who was presented with dyspepsia with associated alarm feature and during evaluation was found to have synchronous primary gastric and colonic cancer.

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Esophagogastorduodenoscopy, Gastric Cancer, Double Primary Gastric and Colorectal Cancer, Histopathological Examination.
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Authors

Brij Sharma
Professor, Department of Gastroenterology IGMC- Shimla, India
Vishal Bodh
Assistant Professor, Department of Gastroenterology, IGMC - Shimla, India
Rajesh Sharma
Associate Professor, Department of Gastroenterology, IGMC- Shimla, India
Rajesh Kumar
Senior Resident, Department of Gastroenterology, IGMC- Shimla, India

Abstract


Incidence of multiple primary malignant neoplasm increases with age, mainly because of an improvement in diagnostic techniques and prolonged survival of patients treated for malignancy. Multiple tumors may develop synchronously or metachronously. If the time interval between the appearances of the two neoplasms is less than 6 months, they are defined as synchronous, and if the time interval is longer than 6 months, they are classified as metachronous. Gastric cancer associated with synchronous colon cancer is very rare. We report a case of 56 year old male who was presented with dyspepsia with associated alarm feature and during evaluation was found to have synchronous primary gastric and colonic cancer.

Keywords


Esophagogastorduodenoscopy, Gastric Cancer, Double Primary Gastric and Colorectal Cancer, Histopathological Examination.

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