AccScience Publishing / ARNM / Volume 2 / Issue 3 / DOI: 10.36922/arnm.3887
CASE REPORT

Co-occurrence of rectal and lung cancers: A case report

Phuong Cam Pham1,2,3 Khuy Minh Doan4 Thuy Phuong Ngo2 Hien Minh Nguyen2 Ha Thanh Le2 Lanh Minh Pham4 Khoa Trong Mai1,2,3*
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1 The Nuclear Medicine and Oncology Center, Bach Mai Hospital, Hanoi, Vietnam
2 Department of Oncology and Nuclear Medicine, University of Medicine and Pharmacy National University, Hanoi, Vietnam
3 Department of Nuclear Medicine, Hanoi Medical University, Hanoi, Vietnam
4 The Pathology and Cytology Center, Bach Mai Hospital, Hanoi, Vietnam
Submitted: 6 June 2024 | Accepted: 14 August 2024 | Published: 7 October 2024
© 2024 by the Author(s). This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License ( https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ )
Abstract

Co-occurrence of two types of cancers, especially lung and colorectal cancers is rare. This study investigated patients at Bach Mai Hospital who were diagnosed with two or three cancers. Only a few patients concurrently had two cancers. Positron emission tomography (PET)/computed tomography (CT) was used for the staging of cancer, especially synchronous malignancies. In this report, we have presented the case of a patient diagnosed with rectal and lung cancer based on CT, magnetic resonance imaging, and PET/CT scans as well as immunohistochemistry. Managing terminal synchronous cancers is challenging. The efficacy of the preferred anticancer therapy must be considered to ensure patients’ quality of life. Although the combination of tyrosine kinase inhibitor-targeted therapy and chemotherapy is promising, its toxicity remains unknown. Our patient received two cycles of mFOLFOX6, afatinib, and bisphosphonate. However, the treatment was discontinued due to grade 3 stomatitis and grade 2 anemia. Despite recovery and partial response in terms of symptom and tumor marker reduction, the patient refused further treatment and chose palliative care.

Keywords
Two types of cancers
Lung and colorectal cancers
Tyrosine kinase inhibitors plus chemotherapy
Synchronous cancer
Afatinib plus mFOLFOX6
Funding
None.
Conflict of interest
Phuong Cam Pham serves as the Editorial Board Member of the journal, respectively, but was not in any way involved in the editorial and peer-review process conducted for this paper, directly or indirectly. Separately, the authors declare that they have no known competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared to influence the work reported in this paper.
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