[Palliative Care for Rectal Cancer Complicated with Gastric Cancer].

Medical advancements have led to an increase in the number of elderly people. However, standard treatments may sometimes be difficult to use in elderly people. Here, we report the case of an elderly patient with rectal and gastric cancer who refused radical surgery.

[Unresectable Gallbladder Cancer Successfully Treated with Gemcitabine Chemotherapy].

We report a case of unresectable gallbladder cancer successfully treated with gemcitabine (GEM). A 77-year-old man was admitted to our hospital in April 2010 with jaundice. He was diagnosed as having gallbladder cancer that had invaded the liver and hepatic artery, along with lymph node metastasis.

[A curative resection with the combination of portal vein branch embolization and systemic chemotherapy in a patient with synchronous multiple and bilobar colorectal liver metastases].

A 60-year-old man was admitted to our institution having a descending colon cancer with synchronous liver metastases. Tumor marker levels were remarkably elevated and the liver metastases were multiple and located at both right lobe and segment 4. Due to lack of the remnant liver volume, left hemicolectomy and intraoperative right portal vein branch embolization were performed as a primary operation.