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He presented with fatigue and anemia of 6-month duration secondary to recurrent melena, and the specific cause of which remained obscure despite intensive diagnostic workup. Recurrence of a malignancy at the previous anastomosis site was ruled out. The patient continued to have recurrent and intermittent gastrointestinal bleeding until a nuclear red blood cell scan detected a bleeding spot in the epigastric region, which actually turned out to be a second primary carcinoma (stage I) arising from an adenoma in the transverse colon. The patient underwent a left colectomy with ileosigmoid anastomosis formation. During a two-month postoperative follow-up, the patient did not experience any episode of melena or anemia. Even though metachronous colon cancers rarely present with a recurrent and intermittent gastrointestinal bleeding with melena, an aggressive workup must be aimed at ruling out a second independent malignancy in patients who are in remission after an index primary colorectal cancer resection through hemicolectomy. Any neoteric lesion found on colonoscopy in such cases should be dealt with a higher degree of suspicion. Therefore, the need for surveillance colonoscopy as recommended by the National Comprehensive Cancer Network guidelines is imperative and should be practiced in resource-limited countries.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.5339\/qmj.2021.16","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2021,8,17]],"date-time":"2021-08-17T11:31:25Z","timestamp":1629199885000},"source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":0,"title":["Unexplained anemia: A case report of metachronous adenocarcinoma arising in the transverse colon following right hemicolectomy for a primary cecal carcinoma"],"prefix":"10.5339","volume":"2021","author":[{"given":"Asim","family":"Malik","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Surgery, FMH College of Medicine & Dentistry, Lahore, Pakistan E-mail: hali921@hotmail.com"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Asad","family":"Ur-Rahman","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Digestive Disease Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Florida, USA"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Syed Muhammad","family":"Hammad Ali","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Surgery, FMH College of Medicine & Dentistry, Lahore, Pakistan E-mail: hali921@hotmail.com"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"3277","reference":[{"issue":"(2):","key":"CIT0001","series-title":"ESMO Open","first-page":"e000172","article-title":"Multiple primary tumours: challenges and approaches, a review","volume":"2","author":"Vogt\n \nA\n,","year":"2017"},{"issue":"6:","key":"CIT0002","series-title":"Cancer Manag Res","first-page":"119\u2013134","article-title":"Multiple neoplasms, single primaries, and patient survival","author":"Amer\n \nMH","year":"2014;"},{"issue":"(6):","key":"CIT0003","series-title":"Cancer Causes Control","first-page":"1231\u20131242","article-title":"The effect of multiple primary rules on population-based cancer survival","volume":"24","author":"Weir\n \nHK\n,","year":"2013;"},{"issue":"(5):","key":"CIT0004","series-title":"Cancer","first-page":"963\u2013968","article-title":"Field cancerization\" in oral stratified squamous epithelium. 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