[Clinical effectiveness of arterial infusion chemotherapy in advanced and recurrent gastric cancer].
Arterial infusion therapy was applied to 77 patients with 18 unresectable, 29 non-curatively resected and 20 recurrent gastric cancers. 5-fluorouracil (5-FU) was administered by arterial continuous infusion, and adriamycin (ADM) and mitomycin C (MMC) by bolus infusion. The clinical effectiveness of each was evaluated. One-year cumulative survival rate of primary case by Kaplan-Meier method was 19.2%, and that of recurrent gastric cancer was 5.3%. Median survival time of primary case was 6.5 months, showing prolongation compared with recurrent ones. Also, in primary cases, the arterial infusion therapy was more effective in non-curatively resected cases than in unresectable ones. Two of the patients are now alive and another is apparently free of tumor and the remaining one had a recurrence. Continuous arterial 5-FU infusion and ADM low-dose intermittent bolus infusion chemotherapy (AF therapy) were considered an effective supportive treatment without any serious side effects for unresectable, noncuratively resected and recurrent gastric cancer.
Dept. of Surgery I, School of Medicine, Iwate Medical University.
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Sato
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Terashima
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Takagane
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Saito
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Odaka
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Oikawa
D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000971:Antineoplastic Combined Chemotherapy Protocols / Q000008:administration & dosage* / Q000627:therapeutic use; D003131:Combined Modality Therapy; D004317:Doxorubicin / Q000008:administration & dosage; D004341:Drug Evaluation; D005260:Female; D005472:Fluorouracil / Q000008:administration & dosage; D005743:Gastrectomy; D006801:Humans; D007261:Infusions, Intra-Arterial; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D016685:Mitomycin; D008937:Mitomycins / Q000008:administration & dosage; D009364:Neoplasm Recurrence, Local / Q000188:drug therapy* / Q000401:mortality / Q000601:surgery; D013274:Stomach Neoplasms / Q000188:drug therapy* / Q000401:mortality / Q000601:surgery
D008937:Mitomycins; D016685:Mitomycin; D004317:Doxorubicin; D005472:Fluorouracil