Salvage gastrectomy after intravenous and intraperitoneal paclitaxel (PTX) administration with oral S-1 for peritoneal dissemination of advanced gastric cancer with malignant ascites.

Background: Peritoneal metastasis of gastric cancer has extremely poor clinical outcomes. Recently, we developed a combination chemotherapy that used intraperitoneal (IP) paclitaxel (PTX) and produced excellent antitumor effects against peritoneal lesions. However, no information is available about the benefit of gastrectomy in cases with malignant ascites.

S-1 plus intravenous and intraperitoneal Paclitaxel for gastric cancer with peritoneal metastasis.

Peritoneal metastasis is the most frequent and life-threatening type of metastasis in patients with advanced gastric cancer. Despite recent advances in chemotherapeutic agents, any treatment, if administered only via the intravenous (IV) route, cannot satisfactorily control peritoneal metastasis in gastric cancer. Although intraperitoneal (IP) chemotherapy has been proposed as a treatment option, the clinical efficacy of IP chemotherapy for peritoneal lesions has not been examined in gastrointestinal cancer.

[The updated treatment strategy for gastric cancer with peritoneal metastasis].

The standard of care for gastric cancer with peritoneal metastasis is chemotherapy. However, there is no chemotherapy regimen with a sufficient level of evidence, and thus S-1 plus cisplatin (CDDP), which is regarded as the standard regimen for advanced metastatic gastric cancer, is widely applied. Meanwhile the efficacy of intraperitoneal (IP) administration of taxanes has been verified, and the novel multidisciplinary treatment combining chemotherapy and surgery is now being tested.

Clinical significance of CA125 and CA72-4 in gastric cancer with peritoneal dissemination.

Background: Serum tumor markers have been shown to correlate with the clinical status of patients with advanced gastric cancer. However, the clinical significance of each tumor marker in patients with peritoneal dissemination has not been fully verified.

Methods: Four serum markers, carcinoembryonic antigen (CEA), carbohydrate antigen (CA) 19-9, CA125, and CA72-4, were periodically measured in 102 patients with peritoneal dissemination who received combination intravenous and intraperitoneal chemotherapy.