Open AccessHuge Cutaneous Metastases from Gastric Adenocarcinoma: Report of a Rare Case
Author(s) -
Ahmad R Mafi
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
reports of radiotherapy and oncology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2345-3192
pISSN - 2345-3184
DOI - 10.5812/rro.102273
Subject(s) - medicine , gastric adenocarcinoma , cancer , palliative chemotherapy , rare disease , disease , adenocarcinoma , chemotherapy , radiology , surgery
: Cutaneous metastases from gastric cancer are quite rare, accounting for only 6% of all skin metastases in males and 1% in females. In case of occurrence, they are usually a sign of advanced disease and poor prognosis. This report presents a rare case of a 27-year-old male with gastric cancer who developed huge skin metastases and surprisingly, had a few visceral metastases. After four cycles of palliative chemotherapy, he discontinued the treatment and started to consume some herbal medicine. As he had a few visceral metastases, we presume that he passed away due to septic complications of the skin lesions rather than visceral crisis.