[A case of colon cancer with chronic renal dysfunction responding to effective retreatment with FOLFIRI]

Gan To Kagaku Ryoho. 2012 Aug;39(8):1267-70.
[Article in Japanese]

Abstract

A 76-year-old man with renal dysfunction received FOLFIRI due to a relapse in his pelvis after surgery for sigmoid colon cancer. FOLFIRI was continued for approximately 21 months with stabilization of disease observed on CT scans, but his tumor marker levels increased and tumors showed progression. He then began treatment with cetuximab/CPT-11, but disease progression was observed. XELOX in a low-dose was then administered, but this therapy was discontinued because of progression. He could not receive the other antitumor agents, due to mutations of the KRAS gene and renal dysfunction. Therefore, FOLFIRI was restarted, because it can be continued for long periods of time. Consequently, his tumor marker levels decreased with stabilization of disease on CT scans, and he continued the therapy for 7 months while maintaining quality of life. Ultimately, this case suggested that if there was effectiveness from a previous treatment, retreatment would be successful as chemotherapy for colon cancer in the difficult situation of selecting the other effective antitumor agents.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Aged
  • Antineoplastic Combined Chemotherapy Protocols / therapeutic use*
  • Camptothecin / analogs & derivatives
  • Camptothecin / therapeutic use
  • Colonic Neoplasms / complications
  • Colonic Neoplasms / drug therapy*
  • Colonic Neoplasms / genetics
  • Fluorouracil / therapeutic use
  • Humans
  • Kidney Failure, Chronic / complications*
  • Leucovorin / therapeutic use
  • Male
  • Proto-Oncogene Proteins / genetics
  • Proto-Oncogene Proteins p21(ras)
  • Salvage Therapy
  • Tomography, X-Ray Computed
  • ras Proteins / genetics

Substances

  • KRAS protein, human
  • Proto-Oncogene Proteins
  • Proto-Oncogene Proteins p21(ras)
  • ras Proteins
  • Leucovorin
  • Fluorouracil
  • Camptothecin

Supplementary concepts

  • IFL protocol