[A case of hepatocellular carcinoma with multiple lung metastases responding to intermittent intrahepatic arterial chemotherapy of CDDP+5-FU]

Gan To Kagaku Ryoho. 2005 Feb;32(2):235-8.
[Article in Japanese]

Abstract

A 72-year-old man who had multiple hepatocellular carcinoma underwent eight times intrahepatic arterial chemotherapies of SMANCS and two times percutaneous ethanol injection (PEIT) therapies over three years, but new diffuse lesions appeared in the liver. He was treated by intermittent intrahepatic arterial chemotherapy with CDDP 10 mg/body/w and 5-FU 500 mg/body/w. Three months after the start of this therapy, the liver tumor was enlarged and multiple lung metastases appeared. But ten months later, the size of the hepatic lesion was reduced and the lung lesion disappeared. Fifteen months later, a solitary metastatic lesion in the left lung was resected. After two years, peritonitis carcinomatosa was observed, and the patient died.

Publication types

  • Case Reports
  • English Abstract

MeSH terms

  • Aged
  • Antineoplastic Combined Chemotherapy Protocols / therapeutic use*
  • Carcinoma, Hepatocellular / drug therapy*
  • Carcinoma, Hepatocellular / secondary
  • Cisplatin / administration & dosage
  • Combined Modality Therapy
  • Drug Administration Schedule
  • Fluorouracil / administration & dosage
  • Hepatic Artery
  • Humans
  • Infusion Pumps, Implantable*
  • Infusions, Intra-Arterial
  • Liver Neoplasms / drug therapy*
  • Liver Neoplasms / pathology
  • Lung Neoplasms / drug therapy*
  • Lung Neoplasms / secondary
  • Male

Substances

  • Cisplatin
  • Fluorouracil