[A Case of Perforated Gastric Cancer Treated with Curative Resection Following Conservative Medical Management and Chemotherapy]

Gan To Kagaku Ryoho. 2018 Dec;45(13):1836-1838.
[Article in Japanese]

Abstract

Perforated gastric cancer typically requires life-saving emergency surgery. However, preoperative diagnosis is difficult, the rate of radical resection is low, and the prognosis remains poor. Perforated gastric cancer is generally treated with 1- or 2- stage gastrectomy, but radical resection is rarely performed after a conservative medical management and chemotherapy for perforated gastric cancer. A 65-year-old man visited another hospital with left upper abdominal pain. He was diagnosed with upper GI perforation, and conservative medical management was selected because peritonitis was limited. After close examination, a Type 3 tumor was found in the cardiac region of the stomach. As the advanced gastric cancer was unresectable, chemotherapy, comprising4 courses of SP plus T-mab, was subsequently administered. As the therapeutic effect was PR, we performed total gastrectomy. The pathological findings were tub2>tub1>por2: pT2N1CY0H0P0M0, pStageⅡ, and we achieved curative resection. Postoperatively, S-1 treatment was performed as an adjuvant chemotherapy. The patient remains alive, without recurrence, for 3 years and 6 months postoperatively.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Aged
  • Antineoplastic Combined Chemotherapy Protocols* / therapeutic use
  • Chemotherapy, Adjuvant
  • Gastrectomy*
  • Humans
  • Male
  • Neoplasm Recurrence, Local*
  • Prognosis
  • Stomach Neoplasms* / drug therapy
  • Stomach Neoplasms* / surgery