[Two cases of improved quality of life with intra-arterial infusion of CDDP or unresectable gallbladder and pancreatic cancer]

M Inoue; M Onda; T Tajiri; E Uchida; K Yamashita; Y Moriyama; T Kim; K Furukawa; Y Arima; N Taniai

[Two cases of improved quality of life with intra-arterial infusion of CDDP or unresectable gallbladder and pancreatic cancer]

Gan To Kagaku Ryoho. 1993 Aug;20(11):1676-8.

[Article in Japanese]

Authors

M Inoue¹, M Onda, T Tajiri, E Uchida, K Yamashita, Y Moriyama, T Kim, K Furukawa, Y Arima, N Taniai, et al.

Affiliation

¹ First Dept. of Surgery, Nippon Medical School.

PMID: 8373246

Abstract

The prognosis of patients with advanced gallbladder and pancreatic cancers is poor. Intra-arterial infusion chemotherapy with CDDP was imported in patients with unresectable gallbladder cancer (First case) and pancreatic cancer (Second case). The values of CEA and CA 19-9 were reduced after chemotherapy in the first case, but the CA 19-9 level was not reduced in the second case. Their hospital free survival (HFS) has been more than one year and they could return to their respective occupations. QOL was thought to be improved when considering their HFS. Intra-arterial infusion of CDDP might be one of the multimodal therapies to improve QOL for patients with unresectable gallbladder and pancreatic cancers.

Publication types

Case Reports
English Abstract

MeSH terms

Cisplatin / administration & dosage*
Female
Gallbladder Neoplasms / drug therapy*
Humans
Infusions, Intra-Arterial
Male
Middle Aged
Pancreatic Neoplasms / drug therapy*
Prognosis
Quality of Life*

Substances

Cisplatin