[A case of pulmonary metastasis from colon cancer successfully treated with high-dose 5'-DFUR]

Gan To Kagaku Ryoho. 1995 Jan;22(1):129-32.
[Article in Japanese]

Abstract

We report a case, showing a complete response to high-dose 5'-DFUR, with pulmonary metastasis from colon cancer. A 52-year-old male patient underwent right hemicolectomy for ascending colon cancer in August, 1991. A recurrence of colon cancer developed in the left lower lung 16 months after surgery, and 5'-DFUR was administered at a dose of 1,600 mg/body/day. The pulmonary metastatic lesion was undetectable on chest X-ray film 9 weeks after the start of this therapy. The dose of 5'-DFUR was then reduced to 600 mg/body/day. Although this condition was maintained for 22 weeks, chest X-ray film again showed the metastatic lesion at the same site in the lung as before. The pulmonary metastasis was resected completely in April, 1994. This is suggested to be an effective therapy for pulmonary metastasis from colon cancer.

Publication types

  • Case Reports
  • English Abstract

MeSH terms

  • Adenocarcinoma / drug therapy*
  • Adenocarcinoma / secondary*
  • Adenocarcinoma / surgery
  • Antineoplastic Agents / administration & dosage*
  • Colectomy
  • Colonic Neoplasms / drug therapy*
  • Colonic Neoplasms / pathology
  • Colonic Neoplasms / surgery
  • Combined Modality Therapy
  • Drug Administration Schedule
  • Floxuridine / administration & dosage*
  • Humans
  • Lung Neoplasms / drug therapy*
  • Lung Neoplasms / secondary*
  • Lung Neoplasms / surgery
  • Male
  • Middle Aged
  • Pneumonectomy
  • Remission Induction

Substances

  • Antineoplastic Agents
  • Floxuridine
  • doxifluridine