[Two Cases of HER2-Positive Gastric Cancer with Multiple Liver Metastases Leading to Conversion Therapy with Chemotherapy]

Gan To Kagaku Ryoho. 2017 Nov;44(12):1662-1664.
[Article in Japanese]

Abstract

Case 1: A 69-year-old man underwent chemotherapy with capecitabine plus cisplatin plus trastuzumab to treat advanced gastric cancer that was diagnosed as cStage IV adenocarcinoma(T3N2M1[P0, CYX, H1]). After 12 courses, liver metastases were absent on computed tomography images. The patient underwent total gastrectomy with D2 lymphadenectomy. It has been 22 months since the patient had gastrectomy without recurrence of the cancer. Case 2: A 70-year-old man underwent chemotherapy with capecitabine plus cisplatin plus trastuzumab for treatment of advanced gastric cancer that was diagnosed as cStage IV adenocarcinoma(T4aN1M1[P0, CY0, H1]). After 12 courses, regrowth of multiple liver metastases led to a treatment with weekly paclitaxel plus trastuzumab as a second-line chemotherapy. After 9 courses of second-line chemotherapy, multiple liver metastases were absent in computed tomography images. The patient underwent total gastrectomy with D2 lymphadenectomy. A small white nodule on the surface of S2 and S3 of the liver led to the patient receiving a partial liver resection. The pathological finding of the resected liver specimen was a metastasis of an adenocarcinoma. During continuous chemotherapy with weekly paclitaxel plus trastuzumab after gastrectomy, multiple liver metastases were revealed. The patient died 19 months after gastrectomy.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Aged
  • Antineoplastic Combined Chemotherapy Protocols / therapeutic use*
  • Gastrectomy
  • Hepatectomy
  • Humans
  • Liver Neoplasms / drug therapy*
  • Liver Neoplasms / secondary
  • Liver Neoplasms / surgery
  • Male
  • Receptor, ErbB-2 / analysis
  • Recurrence
  • Stomach Neoplasms / chemistry
  • Stomach Neoplasms / drug therapy*
  • Stomach Neoplasms / pathology
  • Stomach Neoplasms / surgery

Substances

  • ERBB2 protein, human
  • Receptor, ErbB-2