title: [Stereotactic radiotherapy for metastatic liver cancer].
abstract: Twenty cases (27 therapeutic sites/30 nodules) of metastatic liver cancer treated with stereotactic radiotherapy (SRT)were analyzed. The original sites of cancer were colorectal(8 cases), breast(4 cases), stomach(3 cases), esophagus(2 cases), and other organs (3 cases). SRT was performed with 52.8 Gy·4 fr·-1·wk-1. The response rate was 78%, including complete response (CR) at 8 sites, partial response (PR) at 10 sites, stable disease (SD) at 2 sites, progressive disease(PD) at 3 sites, and not detected(ND) at 4 sites, thus demonstrating a potent local therapeutic effect. Ten patients survived for more than 1 year, 8 patients survived for 2 years, and 4 died before 6 months. Clinical analysis suggests that the ideal indications for SRT are patients with a solitary nodule and without extrahepatic disease who have undergone systemic chemotherapy.
authors.affiliation: Dept. of Surgery, NTT West Osaka Hospital, Japan.
authors.forename: Takeshi
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Tono
authors.forename: Chiwan
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Kim
authors.forename: Yuji
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authors.lastname: Yamada
authors.forename: Ami
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authors.lastname: Watanabe
authors.forename: Katsuki
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authors.lastname: Danno
authors.forename: Hirokazu
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authors.lastname: Taniguchi
authors.forename: Shoichiro
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authors.lastname: Fujita
authors.forename: Toshiyuki
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authors.lastname: Kanoh
authors.forename: Yutaka
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Kimura
authors.forename: Tetsuya
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authors.lastname: Yoshida
authors.forename: Tadashi
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authors.lastname: Onishi
authors.forename: Takushi
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authors.lastname: Monden
authors.forename: Shingi
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authors.lastname: Imaoka
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008113:Liver Neoplasms / Q000532:radiotherapy* / Q000556:secondary; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged