COMBINED METHOD FOR TREATING DISSEMINATED STOMACH CANCER CASES

摘要

FIELD: medicine. ^ SUBSTANCE: method involves applying combined chemotherapy course, after having done palliative surgical intervention like gastrectomy or stomach resection, in two stages. Cysplatin heated to 45°C is introduced at a dose of 30 mg/m2 into the abdominal cavity at the first stage at the fourth day after the operation. The second stage is carried out at the tenth-fourteenth day of postoperative period. Xeloda is per os given at a daily dose of 2500 mg/m2 in two portions for 14 days and Cysplatin is intravenously drop-by-drop introduced at a dose of 50 mg/m2 at the eighth and fifteenth day relative to Xeloda treatment begin. The second stage is repeated with 3 weeks long pauses until disease progressing are observed. ^ EFFECT: enhanced effectiveness in achieving partial tumor regress and metastasis regress.