Journal des essais cliniques sur le cancer

Late Recurrence of Endometrial Carcinoma Mimicking Primary Colon Cancer-Case Report and Review of the Literature

Abstract

Ayelet Shai, Menachem Ben Shachar and LiatApel Sarid

The highest risk of recurrence following therapy for early stage endometrial cancer is within 3 years, and the most frequent sites of recurrence are the vaginal vault and the pelvis.

We describe an unusual case of a patient with recurrent endometrial cancer to the wall of the sigmoid colon and adjacent lymph nodes, 15 years after radical therapy for early stage disease. The patient was treated by sigmoidectomy and adjuvant megesterol acetate. She is well more than 4 years thereafter.