title: [A Case of Long-Term Survival after Nine Surgeries for Recurrent Sigmoid Colon Cancer].
abstract: A 67-year-old man was operated for sigmoid colon cancer. Histopathological examination revealed pT3 (SS), N0, M0, Stage Ⅱ cancer. In March 2005, abdominal computed tomography (CT) showed recurrences in the abdominal wall and associated localized dissemination. The patient underwent chemotherapy using TS-1 and CPT-11; however, the disease progressed. Therefore, surgery was performed to resect the recurrences. A re-recurrence developed during the adjuvant chemotherapy. The patient was operated 9 times for recurrences, which were macroscopically resectable, in addition to chemotherapy and radiation. It has been 3 years and 7 months since the last operation, and he is alive with no recurrence. Metachronous peritoneal seeding and distant metastasis developed, but we have observed that surgical resection of each recurrence can prolong patient survival. We conclude that surgical resection can become a treatment of choice for resectable metachronous peritoneal seeding from colon cancer.
authors.affiliation: Division of Gastroenterological Surgery, Saitama Cancer Center.
authors.forename: Michitoshi
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Takano
authors.forename: Yoji
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Nishimura
authors.forename: Hideki
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Ishikawa
authors.forename: Tetsutaka
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Toyoda
authors.forename: Tamuro
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Hayama
authors.forename: Yusuke
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Nishizawa
authors.forename: Toshimasa
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Yatsuoka
authors.forename: Yoshiyuki
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Kawashima
authors.forename: Hirohiko
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Sakamoto
authors.forename: Yoichi
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Tanaka
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D000971:Antineoplastic Combined Chemotherapy Protocols / Q000627:therapeutic use; D003131:Combined Modality Therapy; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009362:Neoplasm Metastasis; D011379:Prognosis; D012008:Recurrence; D012811:Sigmoid Neoplasms / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000473:pathology* / Q000601:surgery; D013997:Time Factors