Brazilian Journal of Infectious Diseases ()

Association between prostate cancer and schistosomiasis in young patients: a case report and literature review

  • Albert Bacelar,
  • Larissa G.M.C. Castro,
  • Aristides Cheto de Queiroz,
  • Eduardo Café

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1590/S1413-86702007000500014
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 5
pp. 520 – 522

Abstract

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This case report refers to a 47-year old patient with prostate cancer associated with schistosomiasis mansoni, who was submitted to radical prostatectomy. This is the third report published in the literature with respect to this association, and up to the present time it is still not known whether a cause and effect relationship exists between the two pathologies. The association between schistosomiasis and cancer has been well-documented in bladder cancer; however, there are no data yet proving the association of this disease with prostatic neoplasia. In this report, a third documented case of prostatic adenocarcinoma and schistosomiasis mansoni is described and a literature review is performed.

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