[A Case of Advanced Right Renal Pelvic Cancer with Left Supraclavicular Lymph Node Metastasis that Attained Long-Term...

A man in his 70s was referred to our hospital for further examination of a positive occult blood finding. Imaging studies showed that the patient had right renal pelvic cancer with interaortocaval, multiple paracaval and left supraclavicular lymph node metastases (cT3N2Ml). Induction chemotherapy was performed with 5 cycles of MEC (methotrexate/epirubicin/cisplatin) followed by 2 cycles of GT (gemcitabine/paclitaxel). After the combined chemotherapies, the residual lesions were the primary tumor in the right renal pelvis and the left supraclavicular lymph node. Right total nephroureterectomy combined with lymph node dissection of paraaortic, paracaval, and interaortocaval area and left cervical area were performed. Histopathologically the postoperative T stage of the primary tumor was determined as ypT3. As for lymph nodes dissected, an interaortocaval lymph node alone, but not the other nodes, contained viable cancer cells. Adjuvant chemotherapy was performed with 7 courses of GT therapy. The patient had intravesical recurrence once and received transurethral resection of bladder tumor followed by intravesical instillations of Bacillus Calmette-Guerin (BCG). Finally, the patient has been free from recurrence for 10 years after the final treatment.