MULTIPLE TUMOR SYNDROME IN THE MALE

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Abstract
We have observed an interesting combination of neoplasms in one individual, each having a different site of origin and location and each presenting an independent clinical problem. It is the combination of a malignant tumor of the thigh and papillary growths of the skin with the relatively infrequent carcinoma of the male breast that makes the case worthy of special notice. As far as we can ascertain, these tumors have no interrelationship with one another. Yet the fact that the patient has the ability to form new growths from the derivatives of the various germ layers, two of the tumors being malignant and one benign, gives a new insight into neoplastic tendencies in man. Heretofore, single or multiple growths from the same germ layer have been noted, but the incidence of association of tumors and neoplasms derived from independent embryonal structures has not been extensively dwelt on. REPORT OF CASE

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