- 著者
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Kiminobu Tanizawa
Kentaro Fukunaga
Noriko Okumura
Mitsuko Sugimura
Eisaku Tanaka
Takashi Hajiro
Minoru Sakuramoto
Masayoshi Minakuchi
Seishu Hashimoto
Takehiro Yasuda
Yusuke Kaji
Kohei Ikezoe
Eizaburo Sato
Toshifumi Nakajima
Yoshio Taguchi
- 出版者
- The Japanese Society of Internal Medicine
- 雑誌
- Internal Medicine (ISSN:09182918)
- 巻号頁・発行日
- vol.49, no.12, pp.1179-1183, 2010 (Released:2010-06-15)
- 参考文献数
- 26
- 被引用文献数
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A standard treatment has not yet been established for elderly small-cell lung cancer patients, especially when they have end-stage renal disease. We report the first case of successful chemoradiotherapy in an elderly small-cell lung cancer patient undergoing continuous ambulatory peritoneal dialysis. A 77-year-old Japanese man on continuous ambulatory peritoneal dialysis was diagnosed as having limited disease small-cell lung cancer. He received four monthly cycles of chemotherapy consisting of carboplatin at 240 mg/m2 on day 1 and etoposide at 40 mg/m2 on days 1 and 3. He underwent additional hemodialysis on days 1 and 3, while continuous ambulatory peritoneal dialysis continued as usual on the other days. Following chemotherapy, he underwent hyperfractionated radiotherapy to a total dose of 45 Grey, resulting in complete remission of the disease. A pharmacokinetic study showed an area under the concentration-time curve of carboplatin of 3.41 to 4.88 mg·min/mL, increasing gradually over the first three cycles, while etoposide did not show this gradual increase. The increased area under the concentration-time curve of carboplatin may have reflected a worsened renal function during chemotherapy. Despite dose reductions and favorable areas under the concentration-ime curve of carboplatin, the patient suffered grade 3-4 hematological toxicities, necessitating transfusions and a further dose reduction. The patient died of recurrent small-cell lung cancer 19 months after diagnosis.