[A case of advanced gastric cancer remarkably responding to preoperative UFT-E therapy].

: We here reported a case of advanced gastric cancer remarkably responding to preoperative short-term UFT-E chemotherapy. UFT-E was orally administered preoperatively for about a month to the patient with type 2 advanced gastric cancer. After the chemotherapy the cancer was found to be remarkably decreased in size and denatured. The amount of residual cancer cells was limited by histopathological examination following the operation and diagnosed as Grade 3 based on the criteria of histological evaluation of chemotherapy for cancer. We continued to administer UFT-E postoperatively and the patient is still alive without symptoms.