Department of Internal Medicine, State Univeristy of New York Downstate Medical Center, University Hospital of Brooklyn at Long Island College Hospital, Brooklyn, New York.
Department of Surgery, State Univeristy of New York Downstate Medical Center, University Hospital of Brooklyn at Long Island College Hospital, Brooklyn, New York.
A 71-year-old man with a history of castration-refractory prostate cancer was initially treated with hormonal therapy. He responded with a decreasing prostate-specific antigen level and improved symptoms. Chemotherapy was initiated later, after an increasing prostate-specific antigen level and findings of distant metastases. Nine months after his initial diagnosis, he presented with a large multinodular perianal mass that was suspicious for primary anal cancer. Biopsy revealed poorly differentiated metastatic prostate carcinoma. The patient died 2 months after the initial presentation with perianal skin metastasis.
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Reference: Urology. 2011 Nov 15. Epub ahead of print.
doi: 10.1016/j.urology.2011.09.033
PubMed Abstract
PMID: 22088572
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