Long-term survival achieved by resection of metastases in the liver and lung in a patient with recurrent colonic cancer: report of a case.

A 58-year-old man who underwent a potentially curative resection of cancer of the sigmoid colon at another hospital was subsequently followed up at our hospital. A lateral segmentectomy was performed for a solitary hepatic metastasis, and partial resection of right S1 was later carried out for a pulmonary metastasis. Another pulmonary metastasis was found 6 years after his third operation and to minimize the area to be resected, bronchial arterial infusion chemotherapy was performed twice. A 51% reduction in the size of the tumor was achieved, so a right upper lobectomy and wedge resection of the bronchus were performed. The patient remains alive 14 years after the initial resection of colonic cancer. This case is considered noteworthy because it demonstrates the potential effectiveness of local adjuvant chemotherapy and the possibility of extended survival in a patient who has undergone resection of both hepatic and pulmonary metastases from colonic cancer.