Advanced gastric cancer with liver and lymph node metastases successfully resected after induction chemotherapy with docetaxel, cisplatin and 5-fluorouracil

At diagnosis, about 35% of patients with gastric cancer present with distant metastases, and most patients with gastric cancer and liver metastases are excluded from curative surgery. We report a case of human epidermal growth factor receptor-2 (HER2)-negative gastric cancer with metastases to the liver and perigastric lymph nodes. The patient (a 60-year-old man) was considered unresectable at diagnosis and was treated with palliative chemotherapy (docetaxel plus cisplatin and 5-fluorouracil by continuous intravenous infusion over 5 days every 3 weeks). However, after 6 courses of chemotherapy, a computed tomography scan showed a reduction of the liver metastasis and the disappearance of the enlarged perigastric lymph nodes. The patient then underwent a curative gastrectomy, lymphadenectomy and liver resection. After surgery, the patient was treated with 6 courses of FOLFOX-4 regimen as adjuvant chemotherapy. With a follow-up of 26 months after surgery, the patient is alive and disease free. In patients with metastatic gastric cancer, the prognosis is poor with a median overall survival of 11 months since curative treatments are excluded; however, this case illustrated that a personalized treatment with chemotherapy and surgery can allow a curative strategy in selected patients with HER2-negative advanced gastric cancer..

Medienart:

Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2014

Erschienen:

2014

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:60

Enthalten in:

Chemotherapy - 60(2014), 4, Seite 224-227

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Cavanna, Luigi [VerfasserIn]
Bodini, Flavio Cesare [Sonstige Person]
Stroppa, Elisa Maria [Sonstige Person]
Banchini, Filippo [Sonstige Person]
Michieletti, Emanuele [Sonstige Person]
Capelli, Patrizio [Sonstige Person]
Zangrandi, Adriano [Sonstige Person]
Anselmi, Elisa [Sonstige Person]

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Themen:

Antineoplastic Combined Chemotherapy Protocols - administration & dosage
Chemotherapy
Cisplatin - administration & dosage
Fluorouracil - administration & dosage
Gastrectomy - trends
Induction Chemotherapy - methods
Liver
Liver Neoplasms - diagnosis
Liver Neoplasms - drug therapy
Liver Neoplasms - secondary
Lymphatic system
Metastasis
Stomach Neoplasms - diagnosis
Stomach Neoplasms - drug therapy
Stomach Neoplasms - surgery
Stomach cancer
Taxoids - administration & dosage

doi:

10.1159/000375156

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

OLC1963967666