[A case of surgical treatment of triple cancers in the stomach, rectum and lung].

A case of triple cancers involving the stomach, rectum and lung is reported. A 75-year-old male was admitted to our clinic for the treatment of lung cancer. Right upper lobectomy was performed. Histological diagnosis was small cell lung carcinoma intermediate cell type (pT2N1M0, stage II). At the age of 70-year-old (sixty-two months before the pulmonary resection), he had undergone the resection of gastric cancer. At the age of 74-year-old (fourteen months before the pulmonary resection), rectal cancer was resected. Twenty four resected cases of triple cancers including lung cancer have been reported in the Japanese literature.