TY - JOUR
T1 - Complete response of early gastric cancer to uracil and tegafur
AU - Akahoshi, Kazuya
AU - Chijiiwa, Yoshiharu
AU - Hamada, Syuji
AU - Hara, Keiichi
AU - Nakamura, Kazuhiko
AU - Nawata, Hajime
AU - Matsui, Noriaki
PY - 1998
Y1 - 1998
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=0032466298&partnerID=8YFLogxK
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/citedby.url?scp=0032466298&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1007/s005350050189
DO - 10.1007/s005350050189
M3 - Article
C2 - 9853561
AN - SCOPUS:0032466298
VL - 33
SP - 864
EP - 867
JO - Journal of Gastroenterology
JF - Journal of Gastroenterology
SN - 0944-1174
IS - 6
ER -
