Late recurrence of stomach cancer in a patient treated with a H2 receptor antagonist
Overgaard, H.; Timshel, S.
Ugeskrift for Laeger 158(19): 2717-2718
1996
ISSN/ISBN: 0041-5782 PMID: 8744074 Document Number: 464286
We report a case where a patient developed recurrence of an adenocarcinoma of the stomach ten years after primary surgery. Besides the late recurrence, the case is interesting as the patient participated in a trial investigating the effect of cimetidine on survival after gastric cancer and received cimetidine for two years after surgery. Considering the well documented anti-tumour and immunomodulating effects of histamine type-2 receptor antagonists, it might be interesting to examine the effect on survival after surgery for gastric cancer in patients receiving prolonged treatment with such an antagonist.