[Resection for the treatment of bleeding caused by ovarian metastasis after hepatectomy for metachronous liver metastasis from sigmoid colon cancer]

Gan To Kagaku Ryoho. 2013 Nov;40(12):1915-7.
[Article in Japanese]

Abstract

We describe the case of a 75-year-old woman who underwent bilateral oophorectomy for bleeding due to right ovarian metastasis after hepatectomy for metachronous liver metastasis from sigmoid colon cancer. She underwent curative resection for sigmoid colon cancer( T4a, N2, M0, Stage IIIC). She received adjuvant chemotherapy of tegafur/uracil(UFT) plus leucovorin for 6 months. The patient underwent hepatectomy for liver metastasis 13 months after the primary resection for sigmoid colon cancer. One year after liver resection, the patient underwent emergency surgery for the treatment of bleeding due to ovarian metastasis. She received adjuvant capecitabine chemotherapy for 6 months after oophorectomy. The patient was alive with no evidence of disease 36 months after her oophorectomy. In the present report, we describe the case of a patient who underwent repeated resection for distant metastases after sigmoidectomy. These findings suggest that therapeutic strategies including surgical resection will be very important in the future.

Publication types

  • Case Reports
  • English Abstract

MeSH terms

  • Aged
  • Antimetabolites, Antineoplastic / therapeutic use
  • Capecitabine
  • Chemotherapy, Adjuvant
  • Deoxycytidine / analogs & derivatives
  • Deoxycytidine / therapeutic use
  • Disease Progression
  • Female
  • Fluorouracil / analogs & derivatives
  • Fluorouracil / therapeutic use
  • Hemorrhage / etiology
  • Hemorrhage / surgery*
  • Hepatectomy
  • Humans
  • Liver Neoplasms / drug therapy
  • Liver Neoplasms / secondary*
  • Liver Neoplasms / surgery
  • Ovarian Neoplasms / drug therapy
  • Ovarian Neoplasms / secondary
  • Ovarian Neoplasms / surgery*
  • Sigmoid Neoplasms / drug therapy
  • Sigmoid Neoplasms / pathology*
  • Sigmoid Neoplasms / surgery

Substances

  • Antimetabolites, Antineoplastic
  • Deoxycytidine
  • Capecitabine
  • Fluorouracil