Neoplasias primárias múltiplas em pacientes com câncer colorretal

Abstract

The prevalence of multiple primary neoplasms was of 3.4%, being major in female. Uterus' cancer was the more frequent association. Radiotherapy was performed in 40% of patients. We believe that attendance of cancer patients is very important to precocious diagnosis and treatment of multiple primary neoplasms.

Do Patients with Second Primary Colorectal Cancer Hold the Similar Prognosis and Therapeutic Benefits as Those with Initial Primary Colorectal Cancer?

“…Second pCRC affects the same site but is anatomically distinct from the initial pCRC and thus is not a metastatic or recurrent tumor from the initial pCRC [ 7 , 9 – 11 ]. With respect to the prognosis of patients with initial and second pCRC, Hildebrand et al [ 11 ] observed that there were no significant differences on the prognosis of 1,500 patients with or without multiple primary colorectal cancers who underwent surgery, including those with second pCRC; however, the prognostic analysis was not based on a nationwide dataset or stratified by age at diagnosis and postoperative pathological stage (pTNM stage).…”

Analysis of the videolaparoscopy potentiality in the surgical treatment of the bowel obstruction

“…Unlike in developed countries and certain regions of Africa, where respectively hernia and volvulus of the colon represent the second leading cause of intestinal obstruction (1,9) , we observed high proportion of cancer incidence. We think that this is due to the socio-economic context of our country, in which patients seek medical care in large emergencies of public hospitals with intra-abdominal tumors in advanced stage of evolution (3) .…”