A long-term survivor of metastatic gastric cancer treated by chemotherapy: case report.
A long-term survivor of advanced gastric cancer with multiple metastases to the liver treated by chemotherapy is described. Chemotherapy comprising a combination of uracil and tegafur with mitomycin C achieved a complete response in the patient which lasted for approximately four years. Four years after initiation of the chemotherapy, a unique form of cancer recurrence occurred on the skin, showing infiltrative erythema. Cancer metastases developed further despite more treatment, and the patient died of generalized metastasis four years six months after the initiation of chemotherapy. It is significant that, at autopsy, no cancer cells were revealed in the primary lesion or in the liver which had been present before the initial chemotherapy.
Department of Internal Medicine, Iwaki Kyoritsu General Hospital.
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K
Nagase
A
A
Ohtsu
Y
Y
Saito
M
M
Saito
S
S
Ikeya
N
N
Ishii
H
H
Nakayama
E
E
Hoshino
Y
Y
Sugai
E
E
Wachi
D000230:Adenocarcinoma / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000188:drug therapy* / Q000473:pathology / Q000556:secondary; D000368:Aged; D000971:Antineoplastic Combined Chemotherapy Protocols / Q000627:therapeutic use*; D006801:Humans; D008113:Liver Neoplasms / Q000556:secondary; D008297:Male; D011859:Radiography; D012878:Skin Neoplasms / Q000556:secondary; D013274:Stomach Neoplasms / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000188:drug therapy* / Q000473:pathology