[Clinical effectiveness of arterial infusion chemotherapy in advanced and recurrent gastric cancer]

Gan To Kagaku Ryoho. 1989 Aug;16(8 Pt 2):2927-31.
[Article in Japanese]

Abstract

Arterial infusion therapy was applied to 77 patients with 18 unresectable, 29 non-curatively resected and 20 recurrent gastric cancers. 5-fluorouracil (5-FU) was administered by arterial continuous infusion, and adriamycin (ADM) and mitomycin C (MMC) by bolus infusion. The clinical effectiveness of each was evaluated. One-year cumulative survival rate of primary case by Kaplan-Meier method was 19.2%, and that of recurrent gastric cancer was 5.3%. Median survival time of primary case was 6.5 months, showing prolongation compared with recurrent ones. Also, in primary cases, the arterial infusion therapy was more effective in non-curatively resected cases than in unresectable ones. Two of the patients are now alive and another is apparently free of tumor and the remaining one had a recurrence. Continuous arterial 5-FU infusion and ADM low-dose intermittent bolus infusion chemotherapy (AF therapy) were considered an effective supportive treatment without any serious side effects for unresectable, noncuratively resected and recurrent gastric cancer.

Publication types

  • Comparative Study
  • English Abstract

MeSH terms

  • Adult
  • Aged
  • Antineoplastic Combined Chemotherapy Protocols / administration & dosage*
  • Antineoplastic Combined Chemotherapy Protocols / therapeutic use
  • Combined Modality Therapy
  • Doxorubicin / administration & dosage
  • Drug Evaluation
  • Female
  • Fluorouracil / administration & dosage
  • Gastrectomy
  • Humans
  • Infusions, Intra-Arterial
  • Male
  • Middle Aged
  • Mitomycin
  • Mitomycins / administration & dosage
  • Neoplasm Recurrence, Local / drug therapy*
  • Neoplasm Recurrence, Local / mortality
  • Neoplasm Recurrence, Local / surgery
  • Stomach Neoplasms / drug therapy*
  • Stomach Neoplasms / mortality
  • Stomach Neoplasms / surgery

Substances

  • Mitomycins
  • Mitomycin
  • Doxorubicin
  • Fluorouracil

Supplementary concepts

  • FAM protocol