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A 104-year-old woman with advanced cervical carcinoma of the uterus
Hideyuki Sakurai1, Hideo Niibe, Mitsuo Suzuki
1Department of Radiation Oncology, Gunma University Graduate School of Medicine, Maebashi, Gunma 371-8511, Japan.
Background:
Treatment of elderly patient with advanced cancer includes considerable problems because of their limited life expectancy.
Case:
A 104-year-old woman with FIGO stage IIIB uterine cervical carcinoma treated with external beam radiotherapy and high dose-rate brachytherapy. After the treatment, the serum squamous cell carcinoma (SCC) antigen had fallen to normal level. She is now living 66 months after the treatment without recurrent symptoms.
Conclusion:
In this specific case, the significance of this treatment is that the patient is surviving at the age of 109.
