CARCINOMA AND LEUKEMIA: REPORT OF TWO CASES WITH COMBINED LESIONS: REVIEW OF LITERATURE

Abstract

The combination of leukemia and malignancy is rare. In one case an elderly white patient was operated on for adenocarcinoma of the rectum, with a good result. This was followed in 15 mos. by evidence of myeloblastic leukemia. In the other case, a white [male] was admitted with lymphatic leukemia and jaundice. The jaundice, at first believed to be due to large lymph nodes obstructing the bile ducts, was eventually explained on the basis of car-cinoma of the head of the pancreas. The malignancy probably supervened in an old lymphatic leukemia.