Case Report

Multiple Primary Cancers in Separate Tissues Case Report and Brief Review

Authors: DANIEL W. NIXON, MD

Abstract

With increasing longevity and improved surgical technics, patients cured of one cancer are living to develop other malignancies at a later time. Examples of this are being met with increasing frequency, an important diagnostic matter—to avoid the diagnosis of metastasis and thus to deprive the patient of a second cure.

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