TY - JOUR
T1 - Patient with two secondary somatic-type malignancies in a late recurrence of a testicular non-seminoma
T2 - illustration of potential and flaw of the cancer stem cell therapy concept
AU - Oosterhuis, J Wolter
AU - Peeters, Suzanne H P
AU - Smit, Vincent T H B M
AU - Stoop, Hans
AU - Looijenga, Leendert H J
AU - Elzevier, Henk W
AU - Osanto, Suzanne
PY - 2013
Y1 - 2013
N2 - Here, we report the case of a patient with a non-seminoma of the left testicle, with an intestinal-type adenocarcinoma and a low grade leiomyosarcoma in a late recurrence 19 years after initial diagnosis. The history of the patient, alive with disease 21 years after initial treatment, illustrates the potential and flaw of the cancer stem cell therapy concept. In addition, it is proposed that residual mature teratoma can be regarded as normalization of cancer due to embryonic patterning, and the development of a secondary somatic-type malignancy as failure of normalization.
AB - Here, we report the case of a patient with a non-seminoma of the left testicle, with an intestinal-type adenocarcinoma and a low grade leiomyosarcoma in a late recurrence 19 years after initial diagnosis. The history of the patient, alive with disease 21 years after initial treatment, illustrates the potential and flaw of the cancer stem cell therapy concept. In addition, it is proposed that residual mature teratoma can be regarded as normalization of cancer due to embryonic patterning, and the development of a secondary somatic-type malignancy as failure of normalization.
KW - Adenocarcinoma/diagnosis
KW - Adult
KW - Cell- and Tissue-Based Therapy
KW - Humans
KW - Intestines/pathology
KW - Leiomyosarcoma/diagnosis
KW - Male
KW - Neoplasm Recurrence, Local/diagnosis
KW - Neoplasms, Germ Cell and Embryonal/complications
KW - Neoplastic Stem Cells/pathology
KW - Prognosis
KW - Testicular Neoplasms/complications
U2 - 10.1387/ijdb.130141jo
DO - 10.1387/ijdb.130141jo
M3 - Article
C2 - 23784825
SN - 0214-6282
VL - 57
SP - 153
EP - 157
JO - The International journal of developmental biology
JF - The International journal of developmental biology
IS - 2-4
ER -