A Rare Case of Synchronous Presentation of Acute Myeloid Leukemia and Lung Cancer - Journal of Cancer Therapy

JCT > Vol.10 No.6, June 2019

A Rare Case of Synchronous Presentation of Acute Myeloid Leukemia and Lung Cancer ()

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DOI: 10.4236/jct.2019.106039 1,106 Downloads 2,460 Views

Author(s)

K. J. Sampath^1*, J. Pridvi², A. Anil², K. Ranjith², L. Swati¹, S. Nishant³

Affiliation(s)

¹Department of Pathology, Care Hospitals, Hitech city branch, Hyderabad, Telangana, India.
²Department of Oncology, Care Hospitals, Hitech city branch, Hyderabad, Telangana, India.
³Department of Pulmonology, Care Hospitals, Hitech city branch, Hyderabad, Telangana, India.

ABSTRACT

Background: There are very few publications on synchronous presentation of dual malignancies in the literature. Occurrence of second malignancy in a patient with a known malignant tumor is not uncommon, though synchronous primary malignancies are unusual. Case Presentation: A 77-year-old man was diagnosed elsewhere as squamous cell carcinoma of lung came to our oncology department for further management. He underwent bone marrow evaluation with the suspicious of metastasis in view of pancytopenia. On bone marrow evaluation, found to have prominence of blasts more than 20%, which were CD34 positive and CD117 positive and. Conclusion: Here we describe an unusual rare combination of synchronous presentation of acute myeloid leukemia and squamous cell carcinoma of lung.

KEYWORDS

Synchronous Malignancy, Lung Cancer, Acute Myeloid Leukemia

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Sampath, K. , Pridvi, J. , Anil, A. , Ranjith, K. , Swati, L. and Nishant, S. (2019) A Rare Case of Synchronous Presentation of Acute Myeloid Leukemia and Lung Cancer. Journal of Cancer Therapy, 10, 471-475. doi: 10.4236/jct.2019.106039.

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