[Long-Term Survival after Multidisciplinary Treatment for Resected Pancreatic Adenocarcinoma with Recurrence of Pulmonary Metastases - A Case Report]

Gan To Kagaku Ryoho. 2017 Nov;44(12):1883-1885.
[Article in Japanese]

Abstract

Recent studies indicated that isolated pulmonary metastases could define a favorable subgroup in metastatic pancreatic cancer. We report a case of isolated pulmonary metastases after curative resection of pancreas head cancer treated with chemotherapy and pulmonary metastasectomy survived for 79 months after recurrence. A 72-year-old male underwent pancreatoduodenectomy for pancreas head cancer. Adjuvant chemotherapy was done with gemcitabine hydrochloride (GEM)for 6 months and then S-1 for 2 months. Twenty-seven months after surgery, 2 small metastatic nodules in the left lung was detected. Chemotherapy with GEM was performed but the lesions grew larger very slowly. A new metastatic nodule was detected in the right lung 40 months after surgery and pleural effusion was detected 52 months after surgery. Then combination chemotherapy with GEM and S-1 was performed for 3 months followed chemotherapy with S-1 alone. Seventytwo months after surgery, chemotherapy with GEM was performed again because of patient's intolerance to S-1. Ninety months after initial surgery, pulmonary metastasectomy of the right lung was performed because of its resistance to chemotherapy. Chemotherapy with GEM was started again 4 months after pulmonary metastasectomy but serum levels of tumor markers remained increase. Combination chemotherapy with GEM and nab-paclitaxel was started 8 months after pulmonary metastasectomy but the patient died 16 months after pulmonary metastasectomy.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Adenocarcinoma / drug therapy*
  • Adenocarcinoma / pathology*
  • Adenocarcinoma / surgery
  • Aged
  • Albumins / administration & dosage
  • Antineoplastic Combined Chemotherapy Protocols / therapeutic use*
  • Combined Modality Therapy
  • Deoxycytidine / administration & dosage
  • Deoxycytidine / analogs & derivatives
  • Drug Combinations
  • Fatal Outcome
  • Gemcitabine
  • Humans
  • Lung Neoplasms / drug therapy*
  • Lung Neoplasms / secondary
  • Lung Neoplasms / surgery
  • Male
  • Oxonic Acid / administration & dosage
  • Paclitaxel / administration & dosage
  • Pancreaticoduodenectomy
  • Pneumonectomy
  • Recurrence
  • Tegafur / administration & dosage
  • Time Factors

Substances

  • 130-nm albumin-bound paclitaxel
  • Albumins
  • Drug Combinations
  • Deoxycytidine
  • S 1 (combination)
  • Tegafur
  • Oxonic Acid
  • Paclitaxel
  • Gemcitabine