The prognosis of unresectable advanced gastric cancer is extremely poor. We tried a neoadjuvant chemotherapy in locally advanced unresectable stomach cancer diagnosed by initial explo-laparotomy. After chemotherapy with the FADE regimen (5-fluorouracil + adriamycin + cisplatin + etoposide), the patient was diagnosed clinically as a complete response state on re-staging with radiological gastrointestinal study, fiber-gastroscopy and computerized tomography. During the second-look operation, the advanced cancer was completely resected and the pathological diagnosis was early gastric cancer (EGC) type IIc, stage II (T1N2Mo).
Adenocarcinoma/*drug therapy/radiography ; Antineoplastic Combined Chemotherapy Protocols/*therapeutic use ; Case Report ; Cisplatin/*administration & dosage ; Combined Modality Therapy ; Doxorubicin/*administration & dosage ; Etoposide/*administration & dosage ; Fluorouracil/*administration & dosage ; Human ; Male ; Middle Age ; Stomach/pathology/radiography ; Stomach Neoplasms/drug therapy/radiography/*surgery ; Tomography, X-Ray Computed