Complete remission of bone metastasis of bladder cancer treated by cisplatin-etoposide therapy

Tanaka, S.; Morikawa, Y.

Gan to Kagaku Ryoho. Cancer and ChemoTherapy 18(6): 1039-1041

1991


ISSN/ISBN: 0385-0684
PMID: 2029189
Document Number: 377960
A case of bone metastasis from TCC of the bladder that attained complete remission by cisplatin-etoposide therapy was reported. The patient was a 68-year-old male, already treated with total cystectomy. At 29 months after operation, bone metastasis in left acetabulum was found. 3 courses of cisplatin-etoposide therapy were started. At 12 weeks after initiating the therapeutic regimen, the tumor mass of left acetabulum had disappeared completely on the computed tomogram.

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