[A successful treatment with down-staging chemotherapy for sigmoid colon cancer with unresectable multiple liver and lung metastases]

Gan To Kagaku Ryoho. 2007 Nov;34(12):2032-4.
[Article in Japanese]

Abstract

A 63-year-old woman was diagnosed as having a sigmoid colon cancer with synchronous unresectable multiple liver and lung metastases. After sigmoidectomy, she was treated with S-1 combined with CPT-11 as a down-staging chemotherapy. After 3 courses of chemotherapy, the liver and lung metastases reduced in size as partial response. In March 2005, extended right hepatectomy combined with MHV resection was performed. She was treated with 2 courses of chemotherapy after hepatectomy, and furthermore she underwent left lung upper lobectomy. She has been alive without any signs of recurrence for 33 months from the initial surgery. Recently, a progression of the systemic chemotherapy for colorectal cancer has been a promising modality to improve a poor prognosis for unresectable multiple liver or extrahepatic metastases from advanced colorectal cancer.

Publication types

  • Case Reports
  • English Abstract

MeSH terms

  • Antineoplastic Combined Chemotherapy Protocols / therapeutic use
  • Biomarkers, Tumor / blood
  • Female
  • Follow-Up Studies
  • Humans
  • Liver Neoplasms / blood
  • Liver Neoplasms / drug therapy*
  • Liver Neoplasms / secondary*
  • Lung Neoplasms / blood
  • Lung Neoplasms / drug therapy*
  • Lung Neoplasms / secondary*
  • Middle Aged
  • Neoplasm Staging
  • Sigmoid Neoplasms / blood
  • Sigmoid Neoplasms / drug therapy*
  • Sigmoid Neoplasms / pathology*
  • Sigmoid Neoplasms / surgery

Substances

  • Biomarkers, Tumor