Rome, 23 Jan. (Adnkronos Salute) – A 21-year-old Ukrainian man suffering from a serious form of kidney and liver cancer has been rescued at the Pascale Institute in Naples. The tumor was discovered in January 2021 and in Ukraine he underwent a first operation, which was negative due to heavy bleeding. The mother, who had been working in Naples for some time, took action so that her son could join her.Last March, the young man arrived at Pascale, in the clinic for neuroendocrine tumors. Oncologists Salvatore Tafuto and Alessandra Bacigliano took care of the case, according to whom the tumor was too large to foresee a second operation.
After the PET and scintigraphy, it was therefore decided to subject him to radiometabolic therapy, which began to give the first results in July 2021 when the director of Nuclear Medicine, Dino Lastoria, carried out the second PET and from the report an initial reduction in the tumor mass was noted. It was therefore decided to start the young man on a 28-day therapy and a follow-up visit every 3 months with analogues of the . Given the stability of the disease, after therapy his case was discussed again at the tumor board for a possible surgical re-evaluation. After viewing the CT and MRI images, the hepatobiliary surgery team directed by Francesco Izzo has decided that there are the conditions for a second surgery.
The surgery lasted 8 and a half hours, during which the young man had his adrenal gland and right kidney, the seventh hepatic segment and a flap of vena cava that was then reconstructed.After 48 hours of intensive care, the patient was transferred to the ward in excellent condition. For a few days he has been at home, where he will continue treatment. “This brilliant result was possible thanks to the collaboration and dedication of all the groups involved, a true multidisciplinary approach that is now indispensable for taking care of cancer patients”, comments the medical director of Pascale, Maurizio Di Mauro.
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