[A five-year-survival case in which complete response was recognized after combined chemotherapy using 5-fluorouracil, adriamycin and mitomycin C (FAM) for unresectable gastric cancer].
FAM (5-fluorouracil, adriamycin, mitomycin C) therapy was performed on a 65-year-old man with unresectable gastric cancer. Cancer cells have not been recognized by endoscopic biopsy after the patient's complete response. He is alive without metastasis of recurrence for five years.
Iwase
K
K
Department of Surgery, Social Insurance Kinan General Hospital, Tanabe, Japan.
Takenaka
H
H
Sumimura
J
J
Ishizaka
T
T
Takagaki
M
M
Bessho
T
T
Ohata
T
T
Inoue
M
M
Oshima
S
S
Tanaka
T
T
D000231:Adenocarcinoma, Papillary / Q000188:drug therapy* / Q000473:pathology; D000368:Aged; D000971:Antineoplastic Combined Chemotherapy Protocols / Q000627:therapeutic use*; D004317:Doxorubicin / Q000008:administration & dosage; D005472:Fluorouracil / Q000008:administration & dosage; D005773:Gastroscopy; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D016685:Mitomycin / Q000008:administration & dosage; D011379:Prognosis; D012074:Remission Induction; D013274:Stomach Neoplasms / Q000188:drug therapy* / Q000473:pathology
D016685:Mitomycin; D004317:Doxorubicin; D005472:Fluorouracil