Colorectal and Vulvar Synchronous Cancer: A Case Report

Synchronous cancer is referred to two or more histological distinct malignancies diagnosed during the same hospital admission. Globally more than 1 million people get colorectal cancer yearly resulting in about 0.5 million deaths. Vulvar cancer is the fourth most common gynecologic cancer (following the corpus uterine cancer, cancer of ovary and cervix) and comprises only 4 percent of malignancies of the female genital tract. Here we report a 63 year old female with diagnosis of synchronous vulvar carcinoma colorectal carcinoma. To our knowledge this patient is the only reported case with these two synchronous cancers without any special risk factor.