Gastrointestinal stromal tumors (GISTs) have a significant risk of metastasis, although the degree varies in each case. The present report describes a case of late recurrence of GIST that was diagnosed 30 years after the primary tumor resection. An 80-year-old man was transported to Sanjo General Hospital (Sanjo, Japan) with hemorrhagic shock from gastrointestinal bleeding.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Vasospastic angina is a rare but potentially life-threatening adverse event (AE) of S1, an oral fluoropyrimidine anticancer agent. However, this AE is not well known owing to its low incidence. We report herein a case of a patient who suffered from vasospastic angina associated with S1 chemotherapy for unresectable gastric adenocarcinoma, along with a review of the literature.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: The number of patients with remnant gastric cancer following resection of gastric cancer may increase. The aims of this study were to investigate the development of remnant gastric cancer after distal gastrectomy for gastric cancer and to examine its cumulative incidence, clinicopathological characteristics, and risk factors.
Methods: We examined 437 patients with relapse-free survival for 5 years or more after distal gastrectomy with Billroth I reconstruction for gastric cancer performed between 1985 and 2005.
We report here a case of long-term survival with repeated peritoneal recurrences after resection of perforated sigmoid colon cancer. A 65-year-old man presented with diarrhea and abdominal pain. Computed tomography(CT)revealed diffuse peritonitis caused by perforated sigmoid colon cancer.
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