[Curative salvage treatment of mediastinal and pleuropulmonar metastatis from anal canal cancer]

Cancer Radiother. 2009 Jul;13(4):329-32. doi: 10.1016/j.canrad.2009.02.010. Epub 2009 May 20.
[Article in French]

Abstract

This case report presents a 57 years-old woman treated for a squamous cell carcinoma of the anal canal by radiochemotherapy and brachytherapy. The particularity of this case lays on the fact that she presented a mediastinal and pleural metastatic evolution three years later, which was also treated by radiochemotherapy, leading to a complete remission of 50 months. This observation is interesting for its curative treatment in metastatic cancer of the anal canal. It also illustrates the radiosensibility of anal canal cancers, including metastatic situations, and raises the contribution of PET-scanner to evaluate the response to treatment and detect a recurrence.

Publication types

  • Case Reports
  • English Abstract

MeSH terms

  • Anus Neoplasms* / drug therapy
  • Anus Neoplasms* / pathology
  • Anus Neoplasms* / radiotherapy
  • Brachytherapy
  • Carcinoma, Squamous Cell / drug therapy
  • Carcinoma, Squamous Cell / radiotherapy
  • Carcinoma, Squamous Cell / secondary*
  • Female
  • Humans
  • Mediastinal Neoplasms / drug therapy
  • Mediastinal Neoplasms / radiotherapy
  • Mediastinal Neoplasms / secondary*
  • Middle Aged
  • Pleural Neoplasms / drug therapy
  • Pleural Neoplasms / radiotherapy
  • Pleural Neoplasms / secondary*
  • Remission Induction
  • Salvage Therapy / methods*