A 50 year-old man with loss of weight, altered bowel habit, fatigue and abdominal pain.
Ultrasound detected gastric cancer and gastroendoscopy and MSCT confirmed later.
MSCT noted a transverse colon tumor and a gastric tumor.
But there was an adenocarcinoma of transverse colon which was proved by colonoscopy and immunochemistry result.
Surgery of 2/3 stomach and right colectomy were done and continously a chemotherapy. The patient remains well after the therapeutic course.
Synchronous gastric and colon cancer is still rare, # 2.5% in male patient. It is called synchronous that two kinds of cancer should appear in the same time in 6 months.
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