The Department of Urology, Fujisawa City Hospital

Skeletal muscle and small intestine are rare sites of metastasis in renal cell carcinoma. Therefore very few reports of interferon-alpha (IFN-alpha) therapy exist for these types of metastasis. Here, a case of metastatic renal cell carcinoma to muscle and jejunum is reported. After IFN-alpha therapy for 9 weeks, muscle metastasis completely disappeared and intestinal lesions were markedly reduced. However, subsequent patient compliance for this therapy was poor, resulting in death after relapse of the RCC.

Written by
Sano F, Kimura R, Fujikawa N, Sugiura S, Hirai K, Ueki T, Kitami K.

Reference
Hinyokika Kiyo. 2007 Sep;53(9):635-9

PubMed Abstract
PMID:17933140

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