Linfoma no Hodgkin como segundo cáncer primario en paciente con antecedente de cáncer de próstata. Reporte de caso

Abstract

Introduction: Non-Hodgkin lymphoma (NHL) is a heterogeneous group of neoplastic diseases that originates in lymphoid tissue, mainly in the lymph nodes, but with relative frequency its initial presentation or dissemination is in extranodal sites, presenting differences in its etiology, epidemiology, aspects clinical, morphology, immunophenotype, genetics and response to treatment; its prognosis depends on the histological type, stage and therapeutic response. They represent the seventh most frequent tumor group in the world. Methodology: The methodology used corresponds to a clinical case design, considered the first source of information in the practice of medicine that uses a scientific language structured by sections, focusing attention on relevant clinical findings and with a detailed description of a patient in question. particular. It is purely descriptive, based on the analysis of a previously documented clinical case in a health home. Conclusions: At the age of 75, our patient was diagnosed with prostate cancer. At the age of 80, he presented distension and abdominal pain, for which he went to a health home for medical examinations, which allowed determining the presence of immunophenotype non-Hodgkin lymphoma. B, CD20 POSITIVE, Stage IV-B, with involvement of the stomach, liver, and retroperitoneum as a second primary cancer; He started treatment with the R-MINI CHOP scheme with complete remission of the disease, however, after two years he relapsed and a metastasis to the bone or a third primary cancer was suspected, which could not be determined.