Combined surgery for synchronous esophageal and gastric cancers — Case 2
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 gastric resection and esophagectomy with Roux-en-Y reconstruction were performed for the synchronous cancers.
- No postoperative adjuvant therapy was given.
What happened, in summary
A 63-year-old man had experienced a sensation of obstruction when swallowing for 6 months. Evaluation found two separate cancers at the same time: an esophageal adenosquamous carcinoma and a mucinous adenocarcinoma in the stomach.
He underwent combined surgery similar to the approach used for the other patients in the case series, treating both the gastric and esophageal tumors and reconstructing the digestive tract with a Roux-en-Y configuration. His gastric cancer was classified as Stage I.
No postoperative adjuvant therapy was given. At 12 months after the operation, he was living normally and had no evidence of recurrence. The synchronous esophageal cancer was treated during the same operation, and both cancers remained without recurrence at the 12-month follow-up.
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