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Multiple Metachronous Malignancies, One Patient with Three Primary Malignancies

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Development of a primary cancer after treatment of the first with radiotherapy or chemotherapy is well documented, but it is common with hematological malignancies. Variety of reasons are suggested by various researchers, but a conclusive evidence is not yet available. Excepting a few correlations like the tamoxifen therapy and endometrial cancer, angiosarcoma of the breast following radiotherapy, occurrence of other metachronous malignancies seem to be dependent on genetic and environmental factors. A patient with three primary malignancies is presented here.

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  1. St Isabel’s hospital, Chennai, India

    Sangeetha Jayaraman, Somesh Balakrishnan & Devaji Rao

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Jayaraman, S., Balakrishnan, S. & Rao, D. Multiple Metachronous Malignancies, One Patient with Three Primary Malignancies. Indian J Surg 73, 377–379 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12262-011-0281-y

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