2002 Volume 18 Issue 2 Pages 93-98
The basic treatment for gastric carcinoma is surgical resection. Recently however, in order to shrink the tumor, combined modality therapy has been performed for far-advanced gastric cancer and recurrent tumor following surgery. We report two cases of gastric carcinoma treated with remarkably effective hyperthermo-chemo-radiotherapy. The patients had advanced gastric cancer with invasion to the esophagus and stomal recurrent tumor after total gastrectomy. The tumors completely disappeared after the treatment, and the two patients have survived more than a decade since the beginning of treatment. It is considered that hyperthermo-chemo-radiotherapy is useful for some gastric cancers as an option in combined modality therapy.
