A Case of Triple Primary Malignancies Including the Breast, Pancreas and Lung: The Role of 18F-FDG PET/CT

Breast cancer is the most common malignancy in women and survival rates increase thanks to early diagnosis and treatment options. Secondary malignancies may develop in these cases with increased survival. On the other hand, the cases in which two distinct synchronous organ malignancies develop besides breast cancer are quite rarely found in the literature. In this case presentation, as far as we know, we have reported the first case previously diagnosed with breast cancer in whom development of synchronous lung and pancreas malignancies was detected by 18F-FDG PET/CT performed during follow-up period. Our case is interesting because of carrying synchronous and metachronous 3 distinct malignancies alltogether and it presents the importance of interpretation of the 18F-FDG PET/CT imagings performed during follow-up of a primary tumor and histopathological confirmation with respect to surgical treatment possibility.

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