A 104-year-old woman with advanced cervical carcinoma of the uterus.
BACKGROUND
Treatment of elderly patient with advanced cancer includes considerable problems because of their limited life expectancy.


METHODS
A 104-year-old woman with FIGO stage IIIB uterine cervical carcinoma treated with external beam radiotherapy and high dose-rate brachytherapy. After the treatment, the serum squamous cell carcinoma (SCC) antigen had fallen to normal level. She is now living 66 months after the treatment without recurrent symptoms.


CONCLUSIONS
In this specific case, the significance of this treatment is that the patient is surviving at the age of 109.
Sakurai
Hideyuki
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Department of Radiation Oncology, Gunma University Graduate School of Medicine, Maebashi, Gunma 371-8511, Japan.
Niibe
Hideo
H
Suzuki
Mitsuo
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Nakano
Takashi
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D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D000951:Antigens, Neoplasm / Q000097:blood; D001918:Brachytherapy; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D015843:Serpins; D002583:Uterine Cervical Neoplasms / Q000097:blood / Q000532:radiotherapy*
D000951:Antigens, Neoplasm; D015843:Serpins; C051072:squamous cell carcinoma-related antigen