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LONG‐TERM SURVIVAL AFTER PERFORATION OF CARCINOMA OF THE COLON
Author(s) -
Castle John
Publication year - 1972
Publication title -
medical journal of australia
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.904
H-Index - 131
eISSN - 1326-5377
pISSN - 0025-729X
DOI - 10.5694/j.1326-5377.1972.tb103683.x
Subject(s) - presumption , medicine , perforation , colorectal cancer , carcinoma , general surgery , bowel perforation , disease , surgery , cancer , law , political science , complication , materials science , punching , metallurgy
The case of a female patient alive and well nine years after she suffered a perforated carcinoma of the colon is recorded and discussed. In the treatment of patients with a malignant growth who survive for long periods of time, there is an overwhelming desire to call the patient cured, combined with an increasing reluctance to take any such presumption. This patient's continuing survival over ten years since the known start of the bowel cancer, and over nine years since its rupture and known dissemination, combined with recent knowledge of the apparent lack of local disease, has inspired the report of this case as an encouragement to others involved in this continuing struggle.