Abstract
This report describes a 58-year-old woman with gastric adenocarcinoma and liver metastases, who survives for more than 18 years after diagnosis. At diagnosis and first surgery, a moderately differentiated gastric adenocarcinoma with subserosal invasion was detected, along with 2 regional lymph node metastases and 2 liver metastases. She underwent gastrectomy and regional lymph node dissection but did not undergo liver operation then. After gastrectomy, she received adjuvant chemotherapy for 1 month but discontinued it due to severe diarrhea. Another metastasis in another area of the liver was detected, for which she underwent excision of the right lobe of the liver (subsegments 5, 6, and 7) about 30 months later. No signs of recurrence have been detected for 18 years (as of March 2012). This patient represents a rare case of long-term survival of gastric adenocarcinoma without recurrence after surgical treatment, despite multiple, synchronous, liver and regional lymph node metastases.
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