Progress of Digestive Endoscopy
Online ISSN : 2187-4999
Print ISSN : 1348-9844
ISSN-L : 1348-9844
A case of gastric small cell cancer obtained a partial response by TS1/CDDP chemotherapy
Naoko YagiYuri NakamuraTsutomu IidaMasataka NishiKenji NukagaKunio HaruyamaTeitetsu NiidoYouji Harada
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2010 Volume 77 Issue 2 Pages 80-81

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We report the case of gastric small cell cancer with liver metastasis and lymph node metastasis. The gastric small cell cancer is considered to be poor convalescence and short MST with the special organization type of the gastric cancer. The patient is 81-year-old male and visited with chief complain tarry stool. We diagnosed gastric small cell cancer by the endoscopic findings and histopathological findings of gastric biopsy specimens. Because this case did not have operation adaptation, we performed chemotherapy independent treatment of TS1/CDDP. The improvement and the reduction of the liver metastasis tumors and gastric lesion were recognizes after 3 cycle chemotherapy, but after 8 cycle chemotherapy we recognized the increase of the liver metastasis tumors, However, it passes in 11 months, this patient lives, so we are going to treat by different chemotherapy.
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