[A case of advanced gastric cancer (Borrmann's type 2) that disappeared following short-term preoperative chemotherapy with UFT]

Abstract

On June 2, 1988, a 63-year-old male visited Kitasato University East Hospital because of body weight loss. After an upper GI series and endoscopic examination the patient was diagnosed as having an advanced gastric cancer (Borrmann's type 2) that occupied the anterior wall of the mid portion of the stomach. Endoscopic biopsied specimens showed a poorly differentiated adenocarcinoma, histologically. Thus, the patient was administered UFT (600 mg/day) for preoperative chemotherapy for 3 weeks, and then underwent surgery on July 7, 1988. In a resected specimen, the cancerous lesion was found to have reduced in size and, macroscopically, had changed to a more flat type. Further, on histological examination, no cancerous cell were found in the primary lesion or in the regional lymph nodes in the resected specimen. Thus we report this case as representing a complete to UFT chemotherapy.