[A case report of successful immunochemotherapy of metastatic renal cell carcinoma using UFT and PSK]

The authors have monitored a case of renal cell carcinoma metastatic to the supraclavicular cavity over a twenty-year period following surgical removal of a cancerous kidney. The subject was a 67-year-old male who had his right kidney removed in 1963 because of renal cell carcinoma. In September of 1983, complaints of pain and an enlarged tumor in the left supraclavicular cavity during a physical examination led to a pathological diagnosis of clear cell carcinoma. Although chemotherapy using FT-207+ PSK was ineffective, there was a response to UFT+ PSK therapy which was deemed effective according to the criteria of Koyama and Saito. The findings suggested that UFT was effective in this case.