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A 60-year-old man developed inguinal pain after having no evidence of recurrence for 6 years following treatment for gastric adenocarcinoma. His original treatment had included total gastrectomy followed by 3 cycles of capecitabine plus cisplatin chemotherapy.
Imaging later showed a mass in the spermatic cord. He underwent radical inguinal orchiectomy, and pathology demonstrated moderately differentiated mucinous adenocarcinoma. The spermatic-cord tumor represented a late metastatic recurrence from the gastric primary, making the disease Stage IV.
At 20 months after orchiectomy, he was stable and had no recurrence. This follow-up placed him more than 7 years beyond treatment of his original gastric cancer.
This is a lay summary of an account first published by PMC / PubMed Central. Read the original in full
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