Tsurumachi T, Yamamoto H, Watanabe K, Honda I, Watanabe S, Yamada S, Jingu K, Satomi D, Fujita M
Division of Gastroenterological Surgery, Chiba Cancer Center Hospital, Japan.
Gan To Kagaku Ryoho. 1996 Apr;23(5):631-4.
A 62-year-old male patient was admitted for spontaneous rupture of hepatocellular carcinoma. He also had multiple lung metastases and liver dysfunction. So neither operation nor trans-arterial embolization could be performed. He had been administered UFT (400 mg/day) orally every day. After 5 months of daily administration, there was complete disappearance of multiple lung metastasis and reduction of the primary tumor. This case suggests that UFT is effective for some advanced hepatocellular carcinoma with extrahepatic metastasis.
