Volume 26, Issue 119, January 2022

Synchronous primary malignancy of breast and endometrium in premenopausal women - A rare case report

Anurag Bhattacharjee¹, Geetika Malhotra^2♦, Harshal Ramteke³, Dhirendra Wagh³, Sandip Shinde¹

¹Senior Resident, Department of General Surgery, Jawaharlal Nehru medical college, Datta Meghe University of Medical Sciences, , Wardha, Maharashtra, India
²Resident, Department of General Surgery, Jawaharlal Nehru medical college, Datta Meghe University of Medical Sciences, Wardha, Maharashtra, India
³Professor, Department of General Surgery, Jawaharlal Nehru medical college, Datta Meghe University of Medical Sciences, Wardha, Maharashtra, India

^♦Corresponding author
Resident, Department of General Surgery, Jawaharlal Nehru medical college, Datta Meghe University of Medical Sciences, Wardha, Maharashtra, India

ABSTRACT

Synchronous primary cancer in a single patient is relatively an infrequent occurrence. Combined ovarian & endometrial cancers are well-known synchronous primary cancers in women. Although breast carcinoma and endometrial cancer are too common malignancies in the female population, they have known association in the postmenopausal phase & not in the younger age group. Therefore, the possibility of concomitant cancer in a young woman (premenopausal) is often neglected. The current case is an example of this scenario hence presenting a very rare case of a 38 year old women diagnosed with invasive ductal carcinoma & endometrial papillary adenocarcinoma synchronously. Since such a correlation has not been reported in the literature, the associated risk- factors are worthy of attention seeking, and the strategy for prevention is highlighted.

Keywords: Breast, Endometrium, Cancer, Multiple Primary Malignancy, synchronous or premenopausal women

Medical Science, 2022, 26, ms21e1912

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.54905/disssi/v26i119/ms21e1912

Published: 13 January 2022