Pathological complete response and two-year disease-free survival in a primary gastric choriocarcinoma patient with advanced liver metastases treated with germ cell tumor-based chemotherapy: A case report

Japanese Journal of Clinical Oncology

Volumn 42, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 1197-1201

  Waseda, Yuma ^a   Komai, Yoshinobu ^a   Yano, Akihiro ^a   Fujii, Yasuhisa ^a   Noguchi, Norio ^a   Kihara, Kazunori ^a  

^a TOKYO MEDICAL AND DENTAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Complete response; Germ cell tumor; Human chorionic gonadotropin; Primary gastric choriocarcinoma

Indexed keywords

CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN; CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN BETA SUBUNIT; CISPLATIN; DOCETAXEL; ETOPOSIDE; FLUOROURACIL;

ADENOCARCINOMA; AGED; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; BLEEDING; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CASE REPORT; CHOLECYSTECTOMY; CHORIOCARCINOMA; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CYTOTROPHOBLAST; DISEASE FREE SURVIVAL; EPIDIDYMIS; FIBERSCOPE ENDOSCOPY; GASTRECTOMY; GASTRECTOMY BILLROTH II; GASTRIC CHORIOCARCINOMA; GASTROSCOPY; GERM CELL TUMOR; HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; LIVER METASTASIS; LIVER RESECTION; LYMPH NODE DISSECTION; LYMPHADENOPATHY; MALE; MICROSCOPY; NEUTROPENIA; PRIMARY TUMOR; STOMACH ADENOCARCINOMA; STOMACH TUMOR; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; TREATMENT RESPONSE;

AGED; ANTINEOPLASTIC COMBINED CHEMOTHERAPY PROTOCOLS; CHORIOCARCINOMA, NON-GESTATIONAL; CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN, BETA SUBUNIT, HUMAN; CISPLATIN; DISEASE-FREE SURVIVAL; ETOPOSIDE; FLUOROURACIL; HUMANS; LIVER NEOPLASMS; MALE; NEOPLASM, RESIDUAL; STOMACH NEOPLASMS; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TAXOIDS; TUMOR MARKERS, BIOLOGICAL;

EID: 84870449121     PISSN: 03682811     EISSN: 14653621     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jjco/hys164     Document Type: Article

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