Journal of Medical Case Reports (May 2007)

Multiple metachronous malignancies, one patient with three primary malignancies: a case report

  • Fletcher Horace,
  • Wharfe Gilian,
  • Williams Elaine,
  • Hanchard Barrie,
  • Mitchell Derek

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1186/1752-1947-1-15
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 1, no. 1
p. 15

Abstract

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Abstract We present a 61 year old Para 4 woman who presented with stage II Infiltrating lobular carcinoma of the breast after modified radical mastectomy. She was treated with Tamoxifen for seven years. She was diagnosed with multiple myeloma during year seven post mastectomy because of wrist pain. She was treated with melphalan, prednisone and allopurinol which she tolerated well and the pain in the wrist improved. Tamoxifen was also stopped. Ten months later she presented with vaginal bleeding and was diagnosed with a poorly differentiated endometrial adenocarcinoma at hysteroscopic suction curettage and had an abdominal hysterectomy. Two years later the patient succumbed to metastatic endometrial cancer.