[A case of fluoropyrimidine-resistant recurrent colon cancer successfully treated with weekly administration of irinotecan].
We report a case of fluoropyrimidine-resistant recurrent colon cancer with liver and paraaortic lymph node metastases successfully treated with weekly administration of irinotecan (CPT-11). The patient was a 70-year-old man who underwent rt-colectomy for advanced colon cancer in January 2008. After the operation, adjuvant chemotherapy with uracil/tegafur and oral l-leucovorin was started and continued. However, the CEA level increased after six months, so we switched to CPT-11 at a dose of 100 mg/m2/day for 3 consecutive weeks followed by a week rest. CEA decreased to within the normal range after administration of 4 courses, and CT scan revealed metastatic lesions were reduced after 6 courses. Grade 1 general fatigue, nausea, diarrhea and grade 2 anemia and alopecia were noted, but no serious adverse reaction appeared. After that, CEA slightly increased, so the interval of administration was changed to bi-weekly in consideration of the adverse effect, restarted, and is now continuing. This was then restarted as a bi-weekly treatment, and is being continued now. It is thought this treatment may be simple, easy and promising second-line chemotherapy for uracil/tegafur and oral l-leucovorin-resistant metastatic colorectal cancer.
Takashima
Takeshi
T
First Department of Surgery, Sapporo University School of Medicine.
Tayama
Yoshiko
Y
Nakamura
Yukio
Y
Hirata
Koichi
K
D000368:Aged; D000971:Antineoplastic Combined Chemotherapy Protocols / Q000008:administration & dosage / Q000627:therapeutic use; D002166:Camptothecin / Q000008:administration & dosage / Q000031:analogs & derivatives* / Q000627:therapeutic use; D002272:Carcinoembryonic Antigen / Q000097:blood; D003110:Colonic Neoplasms / Q000097:blood / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000188:drug therapy* / Q000473:pathology; D019008:Drug Resistance, Neoplasm; D006801:Humans; D000077146:Irinotecan; D002955:Leucovorin / Q000008:administration & dosage / Q000627:therapeutic use; D008113:Liver Neoplasms / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000556:secondary; D008297:Male; D009367:Neoplasm Staging; D012008:Recurrence; D005641:Tegafur / Q000008:administration & dosage / Q000627:therapeutic use; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed; D014498:Uracil / Q000008:administration & dosage / Q000627:therapeutic use
D002272:Carcinoembryonic Antigen; D005641:Tegafur; D014498:Uracil; D000077146:Irinotecan; D002955:Leucovorin; D002166:Camptothecin