title: [A case report: multiple liver metastasis from gastric cancer responding to intraarterial infusion of sequential low-dose MTX and 5-FU].
abstract: A 75-year-old man with gastric cancer having multiple liver metastases was given intraarterial infusion therapy with sequential low-dose MTX (30 mg/body) and 5-FU (1,000 mg/body) for metastatic liver tumors one month after the primary gastric tumor was resected. This therapy was given once a week on admission and every two weeks while an outpatient. A total of 18 courses of this therapy produced marked regression and necrosis of liver metastases. The effect was thus rated as partial response. This patient survived 15 months after surgery. These results indicate that intraarterial infusion therapy with sequential low-dose MTX and 5-FU may be effective in multiple liver metastasis from gastric cancer.
authors.affiliation: Dept. of Surgery II, University of Yamaguchi School of Medicine.
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Tsurumi
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Oka
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Hazama
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Tangoku
authors.forename: Y
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Hamanaka
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Suzuki
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D000971:Antineoplastic Combined Chemotherapy Protocols / Q000008:administration & dosage*; D004334:Drug Administration Schedule; D005472:Fluorouracil / Q000008:administration & dosage; D006801:Humans; D015918:Infusion Pumps, Implantable; D007261:Infusions, Intra-Arterial; D002955:Leucovorin / Q000008:administration & dosage; D008113:Liver Neoplasms / Q000188:drug therapy* / Q000556:secondary*; D008297:Male; D008727:Methotrexate / Q000008:administration & dosage; D013274:Stomach Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology*
chemical_list: D002955:Leucovorin; D005472:Fluorouracil; D008727:Methotrexate