Abstract
A woman in her fifties underwent an operation for rectal cancer in 1999. Three years after the operation, she received surgery for bilateral lung metastasis twice. In 2006, a chest CT scan again showed nodules in her right lung. We diagnosed these as metastatic tumors of rectal cancer, and she underwent FOLFOX therapy. After that, her serum CEA level was reduced to normal, but the nodule of the right lung did not decrease in size. Some examinations including a FDG-PET study were performed, and these studies revealed that only the lesion in her right lung was present. Her general condition and lung function were good, so we performed right completion pneumonectomy. She is currently alive one year and three months after the operation, and her ADL has not been reduced compared to preoperation.
