[Two cases of improved quality of life with intra-arterial infusion of CDDP or unresectable gallbladder and pancreatic cancer].
The prognosis of patients with advanced gallbladder and pancreatic cancers is poor. Intra-arterial infusion chemotherapy with CDDP was imported in patients with unresectable gallbladder cancer (First case) and pancreatic cancer (Second case). The values of CEA and CA 19-9 were reduced after chemotherapy in the first case, but the CA 19-9 level was not reduced in the second case. Their hospital free survival (HFS) has been more than one year and they could return to their respective occupations. QOL was thought to be improved when considering their HFS. Intra-arterial infusion of CDDP might be one of the multimodal therapies to improve QOL for patients with unresectable gallbladder and pancreatic cancers.
First Dept. of Surgery, Nippon Medical School.
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M
Inoue
M
M
Onda
T
T
Tajiri
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E
Uchida
K
K
Yamashita
Y
Y
Moriyama
T
T
Kim
K
K
Furukawa
Y
Y
Arima
N
N
Taniai
D002945:Cisplatin / Q000008:administration & dosage*; D005260:Female; D005706:Gallbladder Neoplasms / Q000188:drug therapy*; D006801:Humans; D007261:Infusions, Intra-Arterial; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D010190:Pancreatic Neoplasms / Q000188:drug therapy*; D011379:Prognosis; D011788:Quality of Life
D002945:Cisplatin