Health condition of an elderly woman patient with cancer extract from a clinical experience

Abstract

This is a clinical case about an 82-year-old female patient, she’s from Coloncito, Táchira state, she has a history of breast cancer at the age of 76; her Lobular carcinoma was treated without relapse or clinical manifestations during 5 years post- treatment remained asymptomatic, living a healthy lifestyle with normality; without another pathological antecedent. She has a family member with stomach cancer. With current disease with 3 months of evolution characterized by abdominal pain of slight intensity, intermittently, diffuse. Physical and paraclinical tests revealed ascites and pleural effusion in the right lung base. Samples of ascitic and pleural fluid were taken for cytological study, diagnosing her suspicious for malignancy. Upper gastrointestinal endoscopy was performed, with corpus infiltration by signet ring cells observed in the biopsy. Sample of peritoneum with tumor infiltration was also received. In immunohistochemical studies, hormone receptors were found in signet ring cells, concluding a breast cancer metastasis diagnosis.