Long survival of a colon cancer case with multiple liver metastases cured by multidisciplinary therapy

The patient was a 79-year-old a man who had a sigmoid colon resection for sigmoid colon carcinoma in another hospital 11 years ago. Four years later,he was noted to have multiple unresectable hepatic metastases on CT. Therefore,intrahepatic arterial and portal infusion with CDDP 10 mg + 5-FU 250 mg, respectively,were started. His CEA level decreased to the normal range,and a partial response (PR) was achieved. But two years later, the CEA level increased again,so radiofrequency ablation (RFA) therapy was given during abdominal surgery. Then, IFL, CPT-11+S-1, and FOLFOX were administered. Currently, the patient is being treated as an outpatient with CPT-11+S-1. The patient's multiple hepatic metastases were treated with multidisciplinary therapy, and the man has lived for 6 years 11 months since his first hepatic metastases were noted. The multidisciplinary therapy that was used lengthened this patient's life.