Cancer-to-cancer metastasis

J Urol. 1984 Aug;132(2):340-2. doi: 10.1016/s0022-5347(17)49619-4.

Abstract

The development of another separate primary cancer in a patient with 1 malignant tumor is not uncommon but metastasis of a malignant donor tumor to a different host tumor is extremely rare. Most recipient tumors have been primary renal cell carcinomas. We report a case of metastasis of a malignant melanoma to a renal cell carcinoma.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Adenocarcinoma / pathology*
  • Aged
  • Anus Neoplasms*
  • Female
  • Humans
  • Kidney Neoplasms / pathology*
  • Kidney Neoplasms / secondary
  • Melanoma / pathology
  • Melanoma / secondary*
  • Neoplasms, Multiple Primary / pathology*