Combined surgery for synchronous esophageal and gastric cancers
This gastric cancer diagnosis at a glance
- Stage at diagnosis
- Stage I
- Subtype
- Adenocarcinoma
- Sex
- male
- Treatment
- surgery
- Outcome
- Cancer-Free / NED
Treatment course, step by step
- Combined surgery removed the gastric cancer and synchronous esophageal cancer, with gastric resection, Roux-en-Y reconstruction and thoracoscopic esophagectomy.
- No postoperative adjuvant therapy was given.
What happened, in summary
A 68-year-old man was referred after an esophageal abnormality was found during a medical examination. Evaluation showed two separate primary cancers: squamous cell carcinoma of the esophagus and an adenocarcinoma on the lesser-curvature side of the stomach. CT showed no surrounding invasion or enlarged lymph nodes.
He underwent a combined operation designed to treat both cancers. The gastric portion included resection and Roux-en-Y reconstruction, followed by thoracoscopic removal of the esophageal cancer and reconstruction of the upper digestive tract. The gastric cancer was classified as Stage I.
He did not receive postoperative adjuvant therapy. At 23 months after surgery, he was doing well and had no recurrence. His esophageal cancer was a separate primary treated during the same operation; his gastric cancer remained recurrence-free at follow-up.
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