A Case of Metachronous Quadruple Cancer

Hiromi Sakata, Takashi Munakata, Mitsuo Kusano, Shinji Shirayama, Kazutomo Kikuchi, Yasunori Nishida, Kouichi Koudoh, Tetsu Yamamoto, Michio Mito

Second Department of Surgery, Asahikawa Medical College

We reported the rare case of a 67-year-old woman with metachronous quadraple cancer including carcinoma of the pharynx, stomach, breast and esophagus during 12-year period. These four cancers had quite different histological features. The patient was successfully treated and is well without any evidence of recurrence. Impaired cellular immunity was observed in this case suggesting that it might be the possible pathogenesis of the multiple cancers.

Key words
metachronous quadraple cancer, cellular immunity

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Takashi Munakata Second Department of Surgery, Asahikawa Medical College
4-5 Nishikagura, Asahikawa, 078 JAPAN

Accepted
July 7, 1993

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