Cure of advanced gastric cancer by combined chemotherapy with cisplatinum, mitomycin C, and 5-fluorouracil

✍ Scribed by Hiromi Tanemura; Ryo Kawata; Masao Suzuki; Kuniyasu Shimokawa; Shuji Azuma; Tomohiko Furuta; Shigetoyo Saji; Hirofumi Ohashi; Kazuki Sakata

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 1988
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 690 KB
• Volume: 38
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0022-4790
• DOI: 10.1002/jso.2930380109

✦ Synopsis

A 55-year-old female, in which an unresectable Borrmann II-type gastric cancer (moderately differentiated adenocarcinoma) extending from vicinity of the cardia to the lower portion of the corpus, with direct invasion into the pancreas and extensive lymph node metastases, confirmed by laparotomy, was treated postoperatively by 3 courses of chemotherapy with cisplatinum in combination with mitomycin C and 5-fluorouracil. A complete response was confirmed by roentgenography and endoscopy, and, at 4 months after the first operation, a total gastrectomy with radical lymphadenectomy was performed successfully. Cancer cells were not detectable histologically in the stomach specimen and in all the lymph nodes removed. One year and 5 months after the second operation she is well, showing no sign of recurrence.