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Twenty‐three years of disease‐free survival following cutaneous metastasis from a primary bladder transitional cell carcinoma
Author(s) -
GOWARDHAN BHARAT,
MATHERS MARIE E.,
FEGGETTER JEREMY G. W.
Publication year - 2004
Publication title -
international journal of urology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.172
H-Index - 67
eISSN - 1442-2042
pISSN - 0919-8172
DOI - 10.1111/j.1442-2042.2004.00939.x
Subject(s) - medicine , chemotherapy , transitional cell carcinoma , metastasis , primary treatment , primary tumor , bladder cancer , wide local excision , oncology , surgery , cancer
We present a case of cutaneous metastases from a primary bladder transitional cell carcinoma (TCC), with a prolonged survival of 23 years. Cutaneous metastases from primary bladder TCC are uncommon and, like all metastases, have a poor prognosis. The common modality of treatment of cutaneous metastases from a primary bladder cancer is wide local excision of the metastases followed by combination chemotherapy. Here, we present a case of a solitary cutaneous metastasis from a primary bladder TCC, which was treated with wide local excision and single agent chemotherapy. Twenty‐three years on, the patient remains disease and recurrence free.