[Long-term arterial infusion chemotherapy to the cancer patients]

Arterial infusion chemotherapy is an effective method for unresectable and recurrent cancer patients. But this method had some problems, in terms of efficacy, side effect and safety. Thus, we studied these problems in 33 patients. We inserted the tube into the proper hepatic artery in 25 cases and into the aorta in 8 cases, and used anticancer drugs, such as MMC, ADM and CDDP. In this study, no serial or severe side effects were noted. On the other hand, the obstruction of catheter and artery was found in a few cases. We encountered 2 cases of CR and 11 cases of PR. The effectiveness of this method is approximately 46.4%. These results suggested that long term arterial infusion chemotherapy for outpatients was a safe and effective method from the view point of quality of life in cancer patients.