42-Month Survival following Chemotherapy for Small-Cell Rectal Carcinoma.

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  • Yukawa Norio
    Department of Gastrointestinal Surgery, Kanagawa Cancer Center
  • Akaike Makoto
    Department of Gastrointestinal Surgery, Kanagawa Cancer Center
  • Sugimasa Yukio
    Department of Gastrointestinal Surgery, Kanagawa Cancer Center
  • Takemiya Shoji
    Department of Gastrointestinal Surgery, Kanagawa Cancer Center
  • Kameda Yohichi
    Department of Pathlogy, Kanagawa Cancer Center
  • Imada Toshio
    The First Department of Surgery, Yokohama City University, School of Medicine

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  • 術後化学療法が奏効し長期生存中の直腸原発小細胞癌の１例

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Abstract

A 50-year-old woman who undergoing uterectomy with extended lymph node dissection and local radiation therapy was admitted for constipation. She was found to have rectal carcinoma by barium enema examination and colonoscopy. Low-anterior resection was not curative due to paraaortic lymph node metastasis. Pathological diagnosis was small-cell carcinoma. Postoperative chemotherapy was conducted using CDDP and VP-16. Computed tomography (CT) 9 months postoperatively revealed that the paraaortic lymph nodes swelling was disappeared, and she has continued disease-free 42 months (3.5 years) after resection. Small-cell carcinoma of the rectum is a rare disease with an extremely poor prognosis, although, in our case, chemotherapy proved effective.

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