title: [A case of advanced esophageal cancer with liver metastases: efficacy of combination therapy of docetaxel/cisplatin/5-FU].
abstract: The combination chemotherapy with docetaxel/CDDP/5-FU(DCF)for head and neck squamous carcinoma(SCC) has been widely accepted. It seems quite natural that DCF therapy is expected to be equally effective against esophageal SCC because of their histological similarity. In this report, we present a case of unresectable advanced esophageal SCC with multiple liver metastases which showed remarkable regression by DCF therapy, with relatively slight adverse effects. The patient was a 46-year-old female, who underwent upper gastrointestinal fiber-optic endoscopy for dysphasia and was diagnosed to have upper middle thoracic esophageal SCC. Abdominal CT scan showed multiple liver metastases with para-aortic lymph node involvement. The clinical stage diagnosis was T3N4M1, Stage IVB, obviously non-resectable far-advanced esophageal SCC. Systemic chemotherapy with DCF was started as the initial treatment. The chemotherapy regimen was as follows. 5-FU 500 mg/m(2) was administered as continuous intravenous infusion through day 1 to 5, while docetaxl 60 mg/m(2) and cisplatin 50 mg/m(2) were given intravenously on day 2. Each course was followed by a 23-day drug-free period, and the entire course was repeated every 28 days. Ten cycles of this DCF chemotherapy were carried out. After 4 cycles, primary lesion was judged as complete response(CR)by endoscopy. After 8 cycles, the liver metastases were judged as CR and para-aortic lymph nodes showed a partial response(PR)by CT scan. After 10 cycles, all we could detect was a small local recurrence of the primary tumor, which was then treated with chemoradiotherapy at the outpatient clinic. Until this writing, we added 2 more cycles of DCF therapy for the recurrent para-aortic and inguinal lymph node metastasis. Three years have passed from her first visit, and the patient is still in a stable disease state. The adverse effects were grade 3 at most in both hematological and non-hematological toxicity. We conclude that DCF therapy is potentially very effective for advanced esophageal SCC.
authors.affiliation: Dept. of Gastroenterological Surgery, Toranomon Hospital.
authors.forename: Kazuhisa
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Ehara
authors.forename: Kenji
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Tsutsumi
authors.forename: Yoshihiro
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Kinoshita
authors.forename: Masaki
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Ueno
authors.forename: Shinji
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Mine
authors.forename: Harushi
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Udagawa
mesh_terms: D000971:Antineoplastic Combined Chemotherapy Protocols / Q000627:therapeutic use*; D014408:Biomarkers, Tumor / Q000097:blood; D002945:Cisplatin / Q000627:therapeutic use*; D000077143:Docetaxel; D004938:Esophageal Neoplasms / Q000097:blood / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000188:drug therapy* / Q000473:pathology*; D020701:Esophagoscopes; D005260:Female; D005472:Fluorouracil / Q000627:therapeutic use*; D006801:Humans; D008113:Liver Neoplasms / Q000097:blood / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000188:drug therapy* / Q000556:secondary; D008875:Middle Aged; D009367:Neoplasm Staging; D043823:Taxoids / Q000627:therapeutic use*; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed
chemical_list: D014408:Biomarkers, Tumor; D043823:Taxoids; D000077143:Docetaxel; D002945:Cisplatin; D005472:Fluorouracil