Subramanian Vairavan S, Coburn Michael, Miles Brian J
Scott Department of Urology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX 77030, USA.
Urol Oncol. 2005 May-Jun;23(3):181-3. doi: 10.1016/j.urolonc.2004.11.010.
A case of carcinosarcoma of the prostate in a previously healthy 65-year-old man is reported. The tumor was initially diagnosed as adenocarcinoma, but the prostatectomy specimen showed a 717-g prostate, with evidence of adenocarcinoma and carcinosarcoma without heterologous structures. By 3-month follow-up, local recurrence, and liver, lung, and bone metastases had developed in the patient. He died of disease 10 months postoperatively. Carcinosarcoma of the prostate is a very rare but highly aggressive cancer with limited therapeutic options that should be treated with surgery and managed symptomatically. We believe this article is the forty-second case reported in the literature.
