[A Case of Rectal Cancer with Multiple Liver Metastases Curatively Resected after Systemic Chemotherapy]

Gan To Kagaku Ryoho. 2019 Dec;46(13):2363-2365.
[Article in Japanese]

Abstract

A 61-year-old man complainingof bloody stool was diagnosed with advanced rectal cancer with multiple liver metastases (cT3[A]N1M1a[H2], cStage Ⅳ). We introduced bevacizumab combined systemic chemotherapy prior to radical surgery and confirmed tumor shrinkage in both the primary tumor and liver metastases following systemic chemotherapy. We performed laparoscopic lower-anterior resection, and then the patient underwent liver metastases resection. The histologic evaluation was Grade 2. This was a pathologically curative resection, and the patient has been disease-free since the last operation.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Antineoplastic Combined Chemotherapy Protocols / therapeutic use*
  • Bevacizumab
  • Hepatectomy
  • Humans
  • Liver Neoplasms* / drug therapy
  • Liver Neoplasms* / secondary
  • Liver Neoplasms* / surgery
  • Male
  • Middle Aged
  • Rectal Neoplasms* / drug therapy
  • Rectal Neoplasms* / surgery

Substances

  • Bevacizumab