Author:
Ishida Naoko,Nagata Kenji,Fukuda Jyunki,Oguma Yasuo,Hirashima Tomonori,Minami Kenichi,Nishimura Yasumasa,Matsuo Yukinori
Abstract
Abstract
Background
Surgery is the standard care for patients with early-stage lung cancer, and stereotactic body radiation therapy is an option for those who are medically inoperable or refuse surgery. Medical developments in diagnostic and therapeutic strategies would prolong prognosis of patients with cancer. The number of patients with multiple cancers has also increased. Duplex primary malignant neoplasms are the most common, and triple or more primary malignant neoplasms were extremely rare. This is the first case of sextuple primary malignant neoplasms with lung cancer.
Case presentation
We report a case of two courses of stereotactic body radiation therapy for an 88-year-old Japanese male patient with six primary cancers in five organs. Cancers were detected in the thyroid, prostate, esophagus, bladder, and lungs. He also had a history of angina pectoris and had undergone percutaneous coronary intervention. Although he was capable of undergoing surgery for lung cancers, he refused it because he had experienced many invasive treatments, such as surgeries and percutaneous coronary intervention. In January 2020, the first stereotactic body radiation therapy was performed for the adenocarcinoma in the right lung. In March 2022, the second stereotactic body radiation therapy was performed for the nodule of the left lung. Although he complained of mild dyspnea after the first stereotactic body radiation therapy, we did not use steroids because his peripheral oxygen saturation was within the normal range. He had pleural effusion, cardiac dilatation, and pericardial effusion 2 months after the second stereotactic body radiation therapy, which improved with the use of compression stockings.
Conclusion
A total of 43 and 17 months have passed since the first and second stereotactic body radiation therapy, respectively, there is no local recurrence and the patient can walk independently. We safely performed stereotactic body radiation therapy twice for our older patient with metachronous early-stage lung cancers. If another new tumor is detected, stereotactic body radiation therapy would be a good treatment option for the functional preservation of organs.
Publisher
Springer Science and Business Media LLC
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