Patient has four primary cancers diagnosed in two months

The Danish woman presented with postmenopausal bleeding, but an observant GP helped kick-start investigations that led to the quadruple findings
Woman diagnosed with four primary cancers in just two months
Photograph of the melanoma excised from the right leg primarily with 5mm margin.

Receiving a cancer diagnosis is a terrible blow, but for one patient the hits kept on coming, after she was diagnosed with four separate primary cancers within two months, in a landmark case involving an observant GP.

Doctors from Denmark are reporting the “extremely rare” case of a 70-year-old woman, who was diagnosed with cervical adenocarcinoma, invasive ductal cell carcinoma metastasis, melanoma and multiple basal cell carcinomas (BCCs).