An Unusual Course of Metastatic Gastroesophageal Cancer

We are reporting on a case of a 41-year-old woman who presented with metastatic gastroesophageal junction cancer and who achieved prolonged survival with a multimodal treatment approach. After initially experiencing robust response to chemotherapy, she was treated for distant recurrence with palliat...

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Published inCase reports in oncological medicine Vol. 2015; no. 2015; pp. 1 - 7
Main Authors Dharmarajan, Kavita, Holcombe, Randall F., Hiotis, Spiros P., Lee, Dong-Seok, Manolas, Panagiotis, DiMaio, Christopher J., Pintova, Sofya, Smith, William H., Kartsonis, Maria
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Cairo, Egypt Hindawi Publishing Corporation 01.01.2015
Hindawi Limited
Wiley
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Summary:We are reporting on a case of a 41-year-old woman who presented with metastatic gastroesophageal junction cancer and who achieved prolonged survival with a multimodal treatment approach. After initially experiencing robust response to chemotherapy, she was treated for distant recurrence with palliative radiation to the gastrohepatic and supraclavicular lymph nodes and subsequently, given her unusual near-complete response, with reirradiation to the abdomen with curative intent for residual disease. The case presented is unique due to the patient’s atypical treatment course, including technically difficult reirradiation to the abdomen, and the resulting prolonged survival despite metastatic presentation.
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Academic Editor: Ming-Hsui Tsai
ISSN:2090-6706
2090-6714
DOI:10.1155/2015/941508