[Pancytopenia and ARDS with high dose hepatic arterial infusion].

The patient was a 74-year-old woman with gastric cancer with multiple liver metastasis. She was treated with daily oral administration of TS-1 100 mg/day (day 1-21) and systemic administration of CDDP 90 mg (day 8) as neoadjuvant chemotherapy for 2 courses. As metastatic lesions became smaller, we performed distal gastrectomy.

[A case of multiple superficial esophageal cancers with liver cirrhosis successfully treated by radiotherapy].

We report a case of multiple superficial esophageal cancers with liver cirrhosis successfully treated by radiotherapy. The patient was a 55-year-old man with liver cirrhosis who was under the treatment of internists at our hospital. Upper digestive tract endoscopic examination revealed multiple superficial esophageal cancers.

[A case of metastatic vaginal tumor of rectal cancer].

The majority of vaginal metastases from extra-genital tumors are from colorectal cancer. A case of metastases to the vagina from a huge rectal carcinoma is described. A 55-year-old woman was admitted to the hospital because of a barium ileus after upper GI.

[A case of esophageal cancer successfully treated by chemoradiotherapy after resection for multiple liver metastasis of sigmoid colon cancer].

The patient was a 56-year-old man. Colonoscopic findings showed a cancerous lesion of the sigmoid colon and we performed curative sigmoidectomy. Four months after the operation, abdominal CT scan revealed multiple metastatic lesions in the liver.

[TS-1/CDDP therapy for advanced gastric cancer as neoadjuvant chemotherapy].

Five patients with inoperable advanced gastric cancer were treated with combination chemotherapy of TS-1 and cisplatin (CDDP). TS-1 of 80-120 mg/body/day was orally administered for 3 weeks followed by 2 drug-free weeks, and 60 mg/m2/day of CDDP was venally administered on Day 8. It was possible to evaluate all 5 patients for response and toxicity.

[A case of gastric cancer with paraaortic lymph node metastasis responding to TS-1/CDDP as neoadjuvant chemotherapy].

A 64-year-old male visited our hospital with complaints of epigastric pain. Computed tomography (CT) showed gastric cancer with extensive paraaortic lymph node metastasis. We decided that a curative operation was impossible, and administered the following chemotherapy.