S-1 treatment leading to complete remission of advanced duodenal adenocarcinoma: A case report

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    • Lijun Wang
    • Quanmao Song
    • Jinpeng Li
    • Xiaohua Chen
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  • Published online on: July 21, 2015     https://doi.org/10.3892/mco.2015.607
  • Pages: 1184-1186
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Abstract

Primary duodenal adenocarcinoma (DA) is a rare malignant neoplasm, accounting for 1% of all gastrointestinal tract carcinomas. This is the case report of a 40‑year‑old male patient with a duodenal lesion detected on abdominal magnetic resonance imaging and diagnosed by endoscopy and biopsy as DA. Following surgical resection and histopathological examination, the tumor was confirmed as differentiated duodenal neuroendocrine carcinoma with liver metastasis (TxNxM1). The patient received 8 cycles of palliative chemotherapy with oxaliplatin and s‑1 and achieved a clinically complete response, with a treatment‑related toxicity profile that was considered as tolerable. Therefore, this regimen exhibited favorable efficacy and a tolerable toxicity profile for the treatment of DA in this case.

Introduction

Duodenal adenocarcinoma (DA) accounts for approximately one-third of all small intestinal malignancies, with the other major tumor types being neuroendocrine carcinoma, sarcoma and lymphoma (1). Due to the relative rarity of small bowel adenocarcinomas (SBAs), the prospective trials limited to this disease are sparse and the optimal therapy for advanced SBA as well as resected node-positive SBA has not been determined (2). Patients with DA exhibit poorer outcomes compared with patients with tumors at others primary sites, such as the jejunum and ileum (1). This is the case report of a patient with DA who underwent treatment with oxaliplatin and S-1 (SOX) and a review of the relevant literature.

Case report

A 40-year-old man presented to the Shandong Cancer Hospital and Institute on January, 2011 with a month-long history of abdominal pain, repeated vomiting and weight loss. On January 18, 2011, abdominal magnetic resonance imaging was performed, revealing a tumor of the descending duodenum, involving the uncinate process of the pancreas. A deep ulcer (3.7×4.2 cm), with irregular thickening of the wall of the descending duodenum was confirmed by endoscopy. The histological examination revealed a differentiated duodenal adenocarcinoma (DA). On January 28, 2011, the patient underwent Whipple pancreatoduodenectomy, during which a 2-cm wide tumor was identified in the descending duodenum. The histopathological findings confirmed a ‘differentiated adenocarcinoma extending through the duodenal serosa and infiltrating the pancreatic parenchyma without lymph node metastases (0N+/18N)’. The postoperative period was uneventful, without complications. Two cycles of adjuvant chemotherapy (oral capecitabine monotherapy) were administered following surgery. The clinical and instrumental follow-up revealed disease recurrence: On February 20, 2012, computed tomography (CT) revealed a mass in the right lobe of the liver, which was suspected to be a metastasis. The patient underwent transcatheter arterial chemoembolization on February 28 and radiofrequency ablation on March 5, 2012. At the 2-month follow-up, a CT examination revealed that the right lobe mass had enlarged, with new multiple lymph nodes in the hilar region (Fig. 1) and the disease was considered as progressive. The Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group performance status of the patient was 1. Between May and July, 2012, 4 cycles of palliative chemotherapy were performed, comprising oxaliplatin (200 mg) on day 1 and S-1 (40 mg/m2 body surface area) administered orally, twice daily on days 1–14. The cycle was repeated every 3 weeks. In August 20, 2012, an abdominal CT revealed that the right lobe lesions had shrunk and the hilar lymph nodes had disappeared. The patient was classified as being in partial remission (Fig. 2). From August 21, 2012 onwards, 6 cycles of palliative chemotherapy were performed, comprising S-1 (40 mg/m2 body surface area) administered orally, twice daily on days 1–28. The cycle was repeated every 6 weeks. In October 13, 2012, an abdominal CT revealed that the right lobe lesions had disappeared and the patient was in complete remission (CR) (Fig. 3). The primary lesion was not identified at the last follow-up in May, 2013.

According the National Cancer Institute Common Toxicity Criteria, version 3.0 toxicity scale, the most common adverse reactions, including skin pigmentation, leukopenia and diarrhea, subsided 3–4 weeks after treatment completion, spontaneously or with symptomatic treatment. The toxicity was considered tolerable by the patient (3,4).

Discussion

Although the duodenum is the most common location of small intestinal adenocarcinoma, DA is a rare malignancy, comprising 1% of all gastrointestinal cancers (5,6). DA is usually diagnosed at an advanced stage and the resectability is low. Even with optimal resection, however, survival is poor and recurrence is common, with a median duration of survival for metastatic disease of <8 months (7,8). Ryder et al (9) reported on their 40-year experience with DA at the UCLA Medical Center and demonstrated that DAs are characterized by large size, moderate to poor differentiation and invasion of the surrounding fat or mesentery, which are associated with decreased survival. Metastatic lymph node involvement and the location of the tumor within the duodenum were not found to be associated with survival.

Due to the relative rarity of DA, the prospective trials limited to advanced DA treated with chemotherapy are sparse (2). Retrospective studies indicate that chemotherapy may improve the survival of patients with metastatic SBA compared to no treatment (9). Czaykowski and Hui (10) published a study on patients receiving palliative chemotherapy and reported an increase in median survival of ~8 months compared with patients with advanced disease receiving no chemotherapy. Overman et al (11) conducted a phase II study of capecitabine and oxaliplatin for advanced adenocarcinoma of the small bowel and the ampulla of Vater and reported that the confirmed overall response rate was 50%, the median time to progression was 11.3 months and the median overall survival was 20.4 months.

S-1 is an orally active derivative of 5-fluorouracil (5-FU), which is a fourth-generation oral fluoropyrimidine (12) and has been used instead of 5-FU in certain clinical trials (13,14). S-1 was first approved for the treatment of advanced or metastatic gastric cancer, and there are currently no reports on the treatment of DA. Clinical studies have reported that S-1 in combination with oxaliplatin may achieve a high response rate, ranging between 53 and 59%, with an excellent toxicity profile in the treatment of advanced gastric cancer (15). In this study, the DA patient underwent 4 cycles of the SOX regimen (S-1 40 mg/m2/day administered orally, twice daily, with a schedule of 14 days on and 7 days off, and oxaliplatin 130 mg/m2 administered on day 1), followed by 6 cycles of single-agent S-1 maintenance chemotherapy, with disappearance of the lesions on imaging and complete remission. The progression-free survival was 14 months. This treatment was associated with high efficacy and an acceptable toxicity profile. In conclusion, the study demonstrated that S-1 may exhibit a favorable efficacy and safety profile in patients with advanced DA, although it requires further validation in clinical trials.

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Wang, L., Song, Q., Li, J., Chen, X."S-1 treatment leading to complete remission of advanced duodenal adenocarcinoma: A case report". Molecular and Clinical Oncology 3, no. 5 (2015): 1184-1186. https://doi.org/10.3892/mco.2015.607