Rare Oncology Cases

Advanced Prostate Cancer

Reporting a case of a 71-year-old male who presented with massive and progressive but asymptomatic neck lymphadenopathy. Additional lymphadenopathy was discovered via imaging. The biopsy was consistent with prostate cancer as a primary (stained for PSA and blood PSA level was in the thousands). Yet no specific prostate lesions were seen on imaging. No biomarker expression […]

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Lung Cancer Presenting as Advanced Gastric Carcinoma

Case details from Feb 2025: 63-year-old male, a former smoker, with initial presentation suggestive of an advanced GI malignancy: Weight loss, poor appetite and eventually findings of a large gastric lesion as well as 12 mm pulmonary nodule. Initial biopsy was suggestive of a gastric adenocarcinoma, PDL and Her-2 positive. Additional staining revealed TTF positivity,

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T Cell Lymphoma

66 yo female, original presentation of diarrhea of several month duration. EGD was done. The duodenal biopsy was c/w CD30+ T cell lymphoproliferative disorder. Abnormal PET in the lungs. Initially negative lung biopsy. Normal LDH. Beta-2 -microglobulin 3.3 mg/dl. Progressive dyspnea and new cervical lymphadenopathy. Negative lymph node biopsy as well as negative bone marrow

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Hematologic Malignancies in BLM Heterozygotes

Reporting a case of two brothers in the 60th with Multiple Myeloma and Non-Hodgkins Lymphoma respectively. Genetic testing revealed heterozygosity for BLM gene c.1933 C>T variant. When autosomal recessive, Bloom syndrome is characterized by small stature, microcephaly, abnormal skin pigmentation, facial anomalies, sun-sensitive facial erythema, infertility, immunodeficiency, and predisposition to a wide variety of cancers.

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