Journal of Digestive Cancer Report 2019;7(1):22-25

Extraordinary Response of Metastatic Pancreatic Cancer to Chemotherapy

Dong Woo SHIN 1 ; Jinkook KIM ; Jong Chan LEE ; Jaihwan KIM ; Jin Hyeok HWANG

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Keywords

Metastatic pancreatic cancer; Gemcitabine; Nanoparticle albumin-bound paclitaxel; hENT1 immunohistochemical stain

Country

Republic of Korea

Language

Korean

Abstract

A 58-year-old woman presented with right flank and back pain for one month. After undergoing an abdominal computed tomography (CT), she was referred to our hospital. The abdominal CT showed a hypodense pancreatic tail mass with multiple retroperitoneal lymph node metastases. Positron emission tomography-computed tomography (PET-CT) scan showed high 18F-FDG uptake in pancreatic tumor and enlarged lymph nodes. Endoscopic ultrasound fine needle aspiration (EUS-FNA) revealed adenocarcinoma, which stained strongly in hENT1 (human equilibrative nucleoside transporter 1) on immunohistochemistry. She received gemcitabine 1,000 mg/m² + nanoparticle albumin-bound paclitaxel 125 mg/m² as a palliative chemotherapy. Follow-up abdominal CT and PET-CT after 4 cycles of chemotherapy showed that both pancreatic mass and the metastatic retroperitoneal lymph nodes were nearly disappeared. We report a case of 58-year-old female with metastatic pancreatic cancer who had a dramatic response to palliative chemotherapy (gemcitabine plus nanoparticle albumin-bound paclitaxel).