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Surgical resection following combination chemotherapy with oral s-1 and biweekly docetaxel in a patient with advanced gastric cancer and a prior coronary artery bypass graft with the right gastroepiploic artery: Report of a case

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Cardiothoracic surgeons commonly use the internal thoracic artery (ITA) and the right gastroepiploic artery (RGEA) when performing a coronary artery bypass graft (CABG). Although the development of CABG surgery has enabled long-term survival in patients with coronary artery disease, malignant diseases are more common in older patients. We present the case of a 75-year-old man who had previously undergone CABG with the RGEA and had later developed advanced gastric cancer. We treated this patient with two courses of combination chemotherapy using S-1 and docetaxel as induction therapy, followed by successful tumor resection. Therefore, neoadjuvant chemotherapy was effective for preserving the CABG with the RGEA in a patient with advanced gastric cancer.

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  1. Department of Surgery and Science, Kyushu University, 3-1-1 Maidashi, Higashi-ku, Fukuoka, 812-8582, Japan

    Nobuhide Kubo, Eiji Oki, Kippei Ohgaki, Kotaro Shibahara, Ichiro Imamura, Noriaki Sadanaga, Masaru Morita, Yoshihiro Kakeji, Shunichi Tsujitani & Yoshihiko Maehara

  2. Department of Anatomic Pathology, Graduate School of Medical Sciences, Kyushu University, 3-1-1 Maidashi, Higashi-ku, Fukuoka, 812-8582, Japan

    Kohei Fujita

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Kubo, N., Oki, E., Ohgaki, K. et al. Surgical resection following combination chemotherapy with oral s-1 and biweekly docetaxel in a patient with advanced gastric cancer and a prior coronary artery bypass graft with the right gastroepiploic artery: Report of a case. Surg Today 41, 1531–1537 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00595-010-4453-3

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