[The present state and future of home care for gastric cancer patients]

Gan To Kagaku Ryoho. 2006 May;33(5):584-9.
[Article in Japanese]

Abstract

Recently, cancer treatment has been shift from inpatient chemotherapy to outpatient chemotherapy, because of various medical circumstances. In chemotherapy of gastric cancer, outpatient chemotherapy was not spread in the last decade, because the chemotherapy protocol of gastric cancer was not fit for outpatient chemotherapy. But the development of new drugs as TS-1 make outpatient chemotherapy more frequent. So home care of patients has been important for management of gastric cancer. Various symptoms due to obstruction at primary lesion or other lesion prevent patients from living at home in gastric cancer. But recently, technical development and spread of home parenteral nutrition make a possible home care of patients with gastric cancer. It is necessary to make a system that supports patient life at home.

MeSH terms

  • Adult
  • Aged
  • Antineoplastic Combined Chemotherapy Protocols / therapeutic use*
  • Camptothecin / administration & dosage
  • Camptothecin / analogs & derivatives
  • Cisplatin / administration & dosage
  • Drug Administration Schedule
  • Drug Combinations
  • Female
  • Forecasting
  • Home Care Services, Hospital-Based / trends*
  • Humans
  • Irinotecan
  • Male
  • Middle Aged
  • Oxonic Acid / administration & dosage*
  • Parenteral Nutrition, Home*
  • Pyridines / administration & dosage*
  • Quality of Life
  • Stomach Neoplasms / drug therapy
  • Stomach Neoplasms / therapy*
  • Tegafur / administration & dosage*

Substances

  • Drug Combinations
  • Pyridines
  • S 1 (combination)
  • Tegafur
  • Oxonic Acid
  • Irinotecan
  • Cisplatin
  • Camptothecin