[A case of advanced gastric cancer that responded to long-term administration of low-dose 5'-DFUR]

A 83-year-old female suffering from advanced gastric cancer with paraaortic lymph node metastases was administered low-dose 5'-DFUR (600 mg/day) orally. The primary tumor reduced in size fifty days after the start of the treatment, and the swelled lymph node disappeared on abdominal CT scan. Specimens obtained by endoscopical biopsy were highly susceptible to pathological degeneration of the cancer. Low-dose 5'-DFUR was effective both for the primary lesion of gastric cancer and for the lymph node metastases in this case.