[A case of advanced gastric cancer responding to S-1 chemotherapy for three weeks]

Gan To Kagaku Ryoho. 2010 Feb;37(2):315-8.
[Article in Japanese]

Abstract

We reported a patient with advanced gastric cancer successfully treated with S-1 chemotherapy for three weeks. The patient was a 67-year-old man who had gastric cancer clinically diagnosed as cT3N1H0P0M0, stage IIIA. His treatment was supposed to be daily oral administration of 120 mg S-1 for 28 days. At 21 days, this treatment was stopped due to severe appetite loss. The histological diagnosis of the resected stomach revealed complete disappearance of cancer cells in the stomach and the regional lymph nodes. Our report suggested that S-1 may have a potent therapeutic effect in neoadjuvant chemotherapy for advanced gastric cancer.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Aged
  • Antineoplastic Combined Chemotherapy Protocols / therapeutic use*
  • Biopsy
  • Drug Combinations
  • Gastrectomy
  • Humans
  • Lymph Node Excision
  • Male
  • Neoadjuvant Therapy
  • Neoplasm Staging
  • Oxonic Acid / therapeutic use*
  • Remission Induction
  • Stomach Neoplasms / diagnostic imaging
  • Stomach Neoplasms / drug therapy*
  • Stomach Neoplasms / pathology
  • Stomach Neoplasms / surgery
  • Tegafur / therapeutic use*
  • Tomography, X-Ray Computed

Substances

  • Drug Combinations
  • S 1 (combination)
  • Tegafur
  • Oxonic Acid