A patient with gastric cancer with peritoneal carcinomatosis treated with intraperitoneal chemotherapy who survived more than 5 years receiving repeated laparoscopic examinations: a case report

Journal of Medical Case Reports
Hironori YamaguchiToshiaki Watanabe

Abstract

Peritoneal dissemination of gastric cancer is still a dismal disease and has extremely poor prognosis even with systemic intensive chemotherapy. However, intraperitoneal chemotherapy using paclitaxel has recently shown good results. In order to perform optimal intraperitoneal chemotherapy, laparoscopic examination is necessary to assess the condition of peritoneal disseminated lesions. This is the first report of a case of a patient with gastric cancer with massive peritoneal metastasis treated with intraperitoneal administration of paclitaxel and repeated laparoscopic examinations who survived more than 5 years. Here we report a case of a 60-year-old Japanese woman with peritoneal carcinomatosis of gastric cancer who underwent intraperitoneal chemotherapy receiving repeated laparoscopic examinations. The patient was referred to our institution for the treatment of peritoneal carcinomatosis of gastric cancer. The staging laparoscopy showed peritoneal metastasis in the whole peritoneal space with a peritoneal cancer index score of 23. An intraperitoneal access port was subcutaneously implanted. Paclitaxel was intraperitoneally and intravenously administered with oral administration of S-1. The second-look laparoscopy, which was ...Continue Reading

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