Long-term survival of a patient with pulmonary metastatic urothelial carcinoma following metastasectomy.

ABSTRACT: Cisplatin-based systemic chemotherapy is the gold standard for the treatment of patients with metastatic urothelial carcinoma (UC), which is a chemosensitive cancer. However, long-term survival has been deemed disappointing. We describe here a case of UC with solitary pulmonary metastasis who had successfully achieved long-term disease-free survival by combination of cisplatin-based chemotherapy and pulmonary metastasectomy. From the finding of this article, we propose that adjuvant chemotherapy may be considered as a viable option after metastasectomy in low volume pulmonary metastatic UC patients.

SUBMITTER: Hasebe K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6129731 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature