Long-term survival after repeat resections of metastases in liver, lung, and stomach from sigmoid colon cancer: report of a case.
A 74-year-old female patient underwent a simultaneous colectomy and hepatectomy for sigmoid colon cancer and its hepatic metastases. Six months later she underwent a hepatectomy for recurrent hepatic metastases; then 10 months later, a pulmonary resection for pulmonary metastasis; and 24 months later, a partial gastrectomy for gastric metastasis. As of December 2005, at 7 years 6 months after the first surgery and at 4 years after the last surgery, the patient is still alive with a good quality of life and no sign of recurrence.
Yoshimi
Fuyo
F
Department of Surgery, Ibaraki Prefectural Central Hospital and Cancer Center, 6528 Koibuchi, Kasama, Ibaraki 309-1793, Japan.
Asato
Yuji
Y
Suzuki
Akifumi
A
Kiyoshima
Moriyuki
M
Shioyama
Yasukazu
Y
Imura
Johji
J
Itabashi
Masayuki
M
D000368:Aged; D003082:Colectomy; D005260:Female; D005743:Gastrectomy; D006498:Hepatectomy; D006801:Humans; D008113:Liver Neoplasms / Q000556:secondary / Q000601:surgery*; D008175:Lung Neoplasms / Q000556:secondary / Q000601:surgery*; D011013:Pneumonectomy; D012086:Reoperation; D012811:Sigmoid Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery*; D013274:Stomach Neoplasms / Q000556:secondary / Q000601:surgery*; D017741:Survivors