{"id":11700,"date":"2021-03-19T14:55:46","date_gmt":"2021-03-19T14:55:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mmj.mw\/?p=11700"},"modified":"2021-03-19T14:55:47","modified_gmt":"2021-03-19T14:55:47","slug":"case-report-high-risk-adult-wilms-tumour-in-pregnancy-a-case-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mmj.mw\/?p=11700","title":{"rendered":"Case Report: High-Risk Adult Wilms\u2019 Tumour in Pregnancy: A Case Report"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Stephen Kasenda<\/strong> &#8211; Blantyre District Health Office, Blantyre, Malawi<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Keywords:\u00a0<\/strong>Africa, Antineoplastic Combined Chemotherapy Protocols, incidence, kidney, Kidney neoplasms, Malawi, pregnancy, Wilms\u2019 tumour<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3>Abstract<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Wilms\u2019 tumour is the most common renal neoplasm in children with an incidence of 10 cases per 1 million children and a median age at diagnosis of 3.5 years. In Western countries its occurrence in adults is 0.2 cases per million people in western countries and carries a poorer prognosis. The co-existence of Adult Wilms\u2019 tumour and pregnancy is extremely rare with less than 20 cases published in the English literature. We present a case of a Malawian woman who had progressive high-risk metastatic Adult Wilms\u2019 tumour in pregnancy after nephrectomy, radiotherapy and two lines of chemotherapy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4>Journal Identifiers<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>eISSN: 1995-7262<br>print ISSN: 1995-7262<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mmj.mw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/187739-Article-Text-477058-1-10-20190627.pdf\">Download PDF<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stephen Kasenda &#8211; Blantyre District Health Office, Blantyre, Malawi Keywords:\u00a0Africa, Antineoplastic Combined Chemotherapy Protocols, incidence, kidney, Kidney neoplasms, Malawi, pregnancy, Wilms\u2019 tumour Abstract Wilms\u2019 tumour is the most common renal neoplasm in children with an incidence of 10 cases per 1 million children and a median age at diagnosis of 3.5 years. In Western countries [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[101],"tags":[67],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mmj.mw\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11700"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mmj.mw\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mmj.mw\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mmj.mw\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mmj.mw\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11700"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.mmj.mw\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11700\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11704,"href":"https:\/\/www.mmj.mw\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11700\/revisions\/11704"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mmj.mw\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mmj.mw\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mmj.mw\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}