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A 63-year-old woman with SIT presented with abnormal vaginal bleeding and was diagnosed with gastric cancer with KT. After careful evaluation, the patient underwent total gastrectomy (Roux-en-Y esophagojejunostomy, antecolic, and D2 lymph node dissection), total hysterectomy plus double adnexectomy, and appendectomy. Considering the patient\u2019s SIT, we devised a modified surgical strategy. The surgery was successful. Postoperative adjuvant chemotherapy was administered, and her current evaluation indicated stable disease. Although gastric cancer complicated by KT is rare, it occurs in some cases. Surgical treatment should be considered if both the primary and secondary lesions can be radically resected and supplemented with systemic chemotherapy. 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