[A successful two-stage treatment with CDDP and CPT-11 for pancreatic neuroendocrine carcinoma with liver metastasis]

Gan To Kagaku Ryoho. 2009 Nov;36(11):1897-900.
[Article in Japanese]

Abstract

A 59-year-old man was diagnosed as having a pancreatic carcinoma with synchronous liver metastasis at initial surgery. After wedge resection of liver tumor for histopathological analysis and gastro-jejunostomy, he was treated with 3 cycles of combined systematic chemotherapy consisting of CDDP and CPT-11, because of histopathological diagnosis confirming a neuroendocrine carcinoma of the pancreas. After chemotherapy, there was no recurrence and the primary tumor was reduced in size. Therefore, pancreatico-duodenectomy was performed as a curative treatment in two stages. During the follow-up, the patient has been alive without any signs of recurrence for 20 months since the diagnosis. Recently, several consecutive chemotherapies have been an effective modality to improve a poor prognosis for unresectable neuroendocrine carcinoma.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Antineoplastic Agents / administration & dosage
  • Antineoplastic Agents, Phytogenic / administration & dosage
  • Antineoplastic Combined Chemotherapy Protocols / therapeutic use*
  • Camptothecin / administration & dosage
  • Camptothecin / analogs & derivatives
  • Carcinoma, Neuroendocrine / pathology
  • Carcinoma, Neuroendocrine / therapy*
  • Cisplatin / administration & dosage
  • Combined Modality Therapy
  • Humans
  • Irinotecan
  • Liver Neoplasms / secondary*
  • Male
  • Middle Aged
  • Pancreatic Neoplasms / pathology
  • Pancreatic Neoplasms / therapy*

Substances

  • Antineoplastic Agents
  • Antineoplastic Agents, Phytogenic
  • Irinotecan
  • Cisplatin
  • Camptothecin