[An outpatient with unresectable pancreatic cancer treated with gemcitabine showing prolonged NC (22 months)]

Gan To Kagaku Ryoho. 2005 Dec;32(13):2133-6.
[Article in Japanese]

Abstract

A 76-year-old man developed jaundice and was hospitalized in January 2002. A 3 cm tumor was found in the head of the pancreas by abdominal CT, and the patient underwent laparotomy. The tumor was histologically diagnosed as a well-differentiated adenocarcinoma, and showed extensive invasion to the portal vein (T4NXM 0 Stage IV a). Incisional biopsy and hepaticojejunostomy were performed. On the basis of a drug sensitivity test, chemotherapy with 800 mg/m2/week gemcitabine was administered. The patient showed prolonged NC without any symptoms for 22 months, although the CEA and DUPAN-2 levels gradually increased during this time and massive ascites were detected in a routine abdominal CT at 22 months postsurgery. The patient died after 25 months of chemotherapy. Here we report a case of unresectable pancreatic cancer treated with gemcitabine on the basis of a drug sensitivity test.

Publication types

  • Case Reports
  • English Abstract

MeSH terms

  • Adenocarcinoma / drug therapy*
  • Adenocarcinoma / pathology
  • Aged
  • Ambulatory Care*
  • Antimetabolites, Antineoplastic / therapeutic use*
  • Deoxycytidine / analogs & derivatives*
  • Deoxycytidine / therapeutic use
  • Drug Administration Schedule
  • Drug Screening Assays, Antitumor
  • Gemcitabine
  • Humans
  • Male
  • Neoplasm Invasiveness
  • Pancreatic Neoplasms / drug therapy*
  • Pancreatic Neoplasms / pathology

Substances

  • Antimetabolites, Antineoplastic
  • Deoxycytidine
  • Gemcitabine