Colloid Cancer: Complexity of Diagnosis, Problems and Solutions (a clinical case)

Colloid cancer of the stomach has a worse prognosis and lower chemo-sensitivity than other forms of stomach cancer. Characteristic of this stomach tumor is low detectability of the tumor at an early stage and pronounced invasiveness with rapid progression of the tumor process. The article presents a clinical case of late diagnosis of colloid stomach cancer in a 59-year-old patient. The patient was examined according to the National Clinical Guidelines for Gastric Cancer. A complex use of various methods for gastric examination in the diagnosis of an advanced clinical case of colloid cancer of the stomach showed the predominant informative value of radiation diagnostic methods in contrast to esophagogastroduodenoscopy. At this, the results of ultrasound and computed tomography examinations of the stomach were comparable and fully confirmed by the results of surgical intervention. Histomorphological examination data verified colloid cancer of the stomach.