PMID: 32157016Mar 12, 2020Paper

A Case of Recurrent Gastric Cancer with Clinical Complete Response after Ramucirumab plus Paclitaxel Therapy

Gan to kagaku ryoho. Cancer & chemotherapy
Motohiro ChumanNaoki Hiki

Abstract

We report a case of a 61-year-old man who underwent open total gastrectomy and D2 lymph node dissection for gastric cancer. The pathological findings were suggestive of pT2N3M0, fStage ⅢA. S -1 was administered for 1 year post-surgery. One year and 9 months after the operation, an epigastralgia was found, and the PET-CT showed an increase of SUVmax 3.80 around the celiac artery. S -1 plus CDDP therapy was initiated. However, due to the occurrence of neutropenia, the therapy was changed to ramucirumab plus paclitaxel. After 20 courses of the same regimen, no PET-CT uptake was observed. We thus considered it cCR and discontinued further chemotherapy. The patient has been alive for 15 months without recurrence. By performing effective chemotherapy at an early stage, cCR could be observed after a secondary treatment. Therefore, longterm survival could be expected for post-operative recurrence of gastric cancer.

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