[Combination chemotherapy of S-1 and CPT-11 for advanced recurrent gastric cancer].

We performed combination chemotherapy using S-1 and CPT-11 for advanced and recurrent stomach carcinoma in order to study the clinical efficacy thereof. The subjects comprised 13 patients aged 55 to 78 with a PS of 0 to 2, who had histologically confirmed unresectable stomach carcinoma or who had undergone a non curative resection with postoperative recurrence, all having measurable or assessable lesions with no severe damage in the principal organ, and from whom informed consent in writing had been obtained. 80 to 120 mg/day of S-1 were orally administered daily for 21 days according to the body surface area.

[Pain management using patient controlled epidural analgesia for transient osteoporosis of the hip in pregnancy].

We report the case of a 37-year-old woman who developed severe pain in bilateral legs and hip in the eighth month of pregnancy. She was diagnosed as transient osteoporosis of the hip in pregnancy by the MRI findings. NSAID is contraindicated for late pregnancy, and we selected epidural analgesia for the pain management of this case.