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Background: Quality of life (QOL) of patients is affected due to procedures done to treat the disease. A good QOL is essential to achieve a holistic approach in treating patients.Methods: We did a cross-sectional study in a tertiary care hospital to describe, identify and compare the factors affecting the QOL of these patients.Results: 42.5% had a permanent stoma and a majority 32.5% were due to a malignancy. Major concerns were skin rash and irritation, depression, loneliness and suicidal thoughts. 62.5% of the total had not gone to work after creation of a stoma. Malignancy was found to be a significant predictor of having a low QOL score.Conclusions: Quality of life of stoma patients in present study was not ideal. There is a definite need to have support groups for these patients in all hospitals.

Multiple primary cancer (MPC) has an incidence of 1.8% and is defined as having two or more cancers in a single patient. Synchronous tumors are defined as ≥ 2 primary tumors occurring within 6 months of diagnosis of the first primary tumor. We present a case of a 27-year-old female patient who presented with a painless, gradually progressive right-sided neck swelling for the last 1 year with no systemic complaints. Examination revealed a 4 × 3-cm, firm, smooth surfaced swelling on right lobe of thyroid. USG neck showed a hypoechoic solid nodule on the right lobe and the left lobe was normal. FNAC showed features of adenomatous colloid nodule, Bethesda II. Right hemithyroidectomy specimen revealed evidence of triple tumors-not otherwise-specified (NOS) tumor, papillary carcinoma thyroid, and medullary carcinoma thyroid, which was confirmed with positivity on IHC with synaptophysin, CEA, and chromogranin. Concurrent appearance of NOS, PTC, and medullary carcinoma thyroid in the very same patient is extremely rare and has not been previously reported in the English literature.

Highlights We report a case of a 52-year-old male patient who presented with features of mass per rectum, which on first look appeared to be a full thickness prolapse of the rectum. On careful examination, it turned out to be intussusception of colonic growth through anal canal. Contrast Enhanced Computed Tomography showed features of colonic obstruction. Sigmoidal growth intussuscepting through anal canal is extremely rare with only 9 cases being reported in Literature till date. He underwent sigmoidectomy with Hartman’s procedure uneventfully. A high index of suspicion is imperative to diagnose & treat such a case in timely manner to avoid lethal outcomes.

Glomangioma or glomus tumors are rare neoplasms of the glomus body, which are located in the stratum reticularis of the dermis throughout the body. With a female preponderance, 75% of them occur in the subungual region and present with non-specific pain as the main complaint. Extradigital glomus tumours are rare and present a diagnostic challenge, seen most commonly in males. We present a case of a 47-year-old male who presented with a painful swelling in the forearm. MRI showed a hypodense lesion in the subcutaneous plane. After a wide local excision, histopathology revealed sheets of round cells with intervening vascular channels, characteristic of a glomus tumor.