[UFT/CDDP treatment in advanced gastric cancer--case report]

In treating advanced gastric cancer cases, 100 mg/m2 of cisplatin (CDDP) was given to such patients by means of a 24 hr continuous iv infusion once a month. This was in addition to daily UFT chemotherapy with an oral administration of UFT at a dose of 200 mg/m2 twice a day before meals. In this paper, two patients who achieved an objective tumor response to this UFT/CDDP chemotherapy are discussed. It was felt that this treatment was not likely to induce either leukocytopenia or thrombocytopenia. With regard to this drug combination, it has been reported that a remarkable, synergistic, antitumoral activity of combined 5-fluorouracil and cisplatin was demonstrated against L-1210 leukemia in BDF1 mice.