[A case of advanced gastric cancer treated with neoadjuvant chemotherapy of low-dose CPT-11 + CDDP]

Gan To Kagaku Ryoho. 2001 Jun;28(6):821-4.
[Article in Japanese]

Abstract

Side effects due to administration of anti-cancer drugs often cause the treatment to be abandoned or a decrease in the amount of anti-cancer drugs. Recently, the anti-tumor effects of "low-dose CPT-11", which can be administered at the outpatient clinic, are reported. We performed "low-dose CPT-11 + CDDP" as a neoadjuvant chemotherapy to a patient with advanced gastric cancer. CPT-11 and CDDP combination chemotherapy caused very few side effects, so we could continue the treatment and achieve anti-tumor effects. Consequently, surgery could be performed, but disseminated metastasis was found so that the surgery ended as a non-curative operation. However, it was considered that this method of "low-dose CPT-11 + CDDP" was very effective as the neoadjuvant chemotherapy in a patient with advanced gastric cancer.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Aged
  • Antineoplastic Agents, Phytogenic / administration & dosage*
  • Antineoplastic Agents, Phytogenic / adverse effects
  • Antineoplastic Combined Chemotherapy Protocols / administration & dosage
  • Antineoplastic Combined Chemotherapy Protocols / adverse effects
  • Camptothecin / administration & dosage*
  • Camptothecin / adverse effects
  • Camptothecin / analogs & derivatives
  • Cisplatin / administration & dosage*
  • Cisplatin / adverse effects
  • Combined Modality Therapy
  • Drug Administration Schedule
  • Humans
  • Irinotecan
  • Male
  • Middle Aged
  • Neoadjuvant Therapy* / adverse effects
  • Stomach Neoplasms / drug therapy*
  • Stomach Neoplasms / surgery

Substances

  • Antineoplastic Agents, Phytogenic
  • Irinotecan
  • Cisplatin
  • Camptothecin