A CASE OF HETEROCHRONOUS EARLY TRIPLE CANCER

Abstract

A case of heterochronous triple cancer in a 75-year-old man is described. He underwent prostatectomy and castration for prostatic cancer at the hospital in 1986. The histopathological diagnosis was adenocarcinoma. In 1988 the patient was readmitted to the hospital because of a 8×8mm rectal polyp, 5cm far from the anal verge. The polyp was resected by transanal approach. Histopathologically it was well differentiated adenocarcinoma. Two years and two months after the second operation, he returned to the hospital because of a 6×5cm tumor on the right axillar. The tumor was surgically resected. Histopathological examination of the resected specimen revealed Hodgkin's disease. All three lesions were found in an early stage and were successufully resected.