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- Title
Complete response of early gastric cancer to uracil and tegafur.
- Authors
Akahoshi, Kazuya; Chijiiwa, Yoshiharu; Hamada, Syuji; Hara, Keiichi; Nakamura, Kazuhiko; Nawata, Hajime; Matsui, Noriaki; Akahoshi, K; Chijiiwa, Y; Hamada, S; Hara, K; Nakamura, K; Nawata, H; Matsui, N
- Abstract
A 74-year-old Japanese woman with early gastric cancer was successfully treated with uracil and tegafur (UFT). She was diagnosed by endoscopy (including endoscopic biopsy and endosonography) with an early gastric cancer, type IIa + IIc, on the greater curvature of the angulus. Surgical procedures or endoscopic therapy could not be performed because the patient had severe ischemic heart disease. Therefore, chemotherapy with UFT was administered at 300 mg/day for 15 months. Follow-up endoscopy, endosonography, and biopsy showed disappearance of the gastric cancer. To our knowledge, this is the first case report of the complete response of an early gastric cancer to UFT in the English-language literature.
- Subjects
STOMACH cancer treatment; URACIL; ENDOSCOPY; BIOPSY; ADENOCARCINOMA; ANTIMETABOLITES; ANTINEOPLASTIC agents; FLUOROURACIL; GASTRIC mucosa; GASTROSCOPY; HETEROCYCLIC compounds; LONGITUDINAL method; NEEDLE biopsy; STOMACH tumors; TREATMENT effectiveness
- Publication
Journal of Gastroenterology, 1998, Vol 33, Issue 6, p864
- ISSN
0944-1174
- Publication type
journal article
- DOI
10.1007/s005350050189