Analysis of 13 postmortem examinations with regard to the effect of chemotherapy on neuroblastoma patients.

abstract：:We encountered a patient with hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) with peritoneal dissemination and needle tract implantation, both of which were strongly suspected to have been caused by percutaneous needle biopsy. The patient was a 65-year-old man. Partial hepatectomy of subsegment VI had been performed following the dia...

journal_title：Japanese journal of clinical oncology

authors： Takahashi H,Konishi M,Nakagohri T,Inoue K,Takahashi S,Tanizawa Y,Monden M,Kinoshita T

更新日期：2004-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:A high response rate has been reported for chemotherapy combining irinotecan (CPT-11) and cisplatin (CDDP) against advanced gastric cancer. The strong anti-tumor activity of this regimen makes it very attractive as a preoperative chemotherapy. We conducted a preliminary study on preoperative chemotherapy wit...

journal_title：Japanese journal of clinical oncology

authors： Yamao T,Ohta K,Ohyama S,Ishihara S,Chin K,Maruyama M,Takahashi T,Nakajima T

更新日期：2004-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A histopathologic study was made on 1,095 thyroid specimens which had been removed surgically under various diagnoses at Seoul National University Hospital during the six-year period, 1976-1981. Among the 1,095 surgically removed thyroids, adenomatous goiter was the most common single disease, accounting for 43% of al...

journal_title：Japanese journal of clinical oncology

authors： Park SH,Suh EH,Chi JG

更新日期：1988-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The techniques of aseptic procedures in the laminar airflow room (LAF) were evaluated in 110 adult patients undergoing antileukemic chemotherapy for remission induction. The patients were divided into three groups according to the regimens: Group A, consisting of 20 patients who stayed in the LAF and received the gown...

journal_title：Japanese journal of clinical oncology

authors： Takeo H,Sakurai T,Amaki I

更新日期：1983-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Interstitial pneumonia, especially that due to cytomegalovirus (CMV), is a frequent and serious complication of allogeneic bone marrow transplantation (BMT). The influence of allogeneic BMT on the development of CMV pneumonia was investigated in comparison with that of autologous BMT. Data on 37 patients (23 allotrans...

journal_title：Japanese journal of clinical oncology

authors： Funada H,Harada M,Yoshida T,Hattori K

更新日期：1984-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A case of advanced parotid cancer in which long-term control was achieved by superselective intra-arterial cisplatin infusion with concomitant radiotherapy is reported. A 63-year-old woman with parotid squamous cell carcinoma was referred to our hospital. Magnetic resonance images revealed extraparotid extension of th...

journal_title：Japanese journal of clinical oncology

authors： Kashiwagi N,Fujii T,Nishiyama K,Nakanishi K,Tomiyama N,Yagyu Y,Tsurusaki M,Kitano M,Murakami T

更新日期：2015-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Study aims include determination of nationwide structural characteristics of radiation oncology facilities, types of radiation therapy equipment, availability of human resources and trends and comparisons with previous surveys. METHODS:An annual nationwide survey was conducted to collect the statistics of in...

journal_title：Japanese journal of clinical oncology

authors： Ji YH,Jung H,Yang K,Cho CK,Yoo SY,Yoo HJ,Kim KB,Kim MS

更新日期：2010-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Although adjuvant analgesics are used to treat opioid-refractory cancer pain, there is insufficient evidence to support this practice and limited data to guide the choice depending on cancer pain pathophysiology, dose titration and starting dose. This survey aimed to clarify the current use of adjuvant analg...

journal_title：Japanese journal of clinical oncology

authors： Tagami K,Matsuoka H,Ariyoshi K,Oyamada S,Hiratsuka Y,Kizawa Y,Koyama A,Inoue A

更新日期：2020-12-16 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:The CpG island methylator phenotype is strongly associated with poor survival in neuroblastomas. Neuroblastomas with the CpG island methylator phenotype include almost all neuroblastomas with MYCN amplification, and, even among neuroblastomas without MYCN amplification, have worse prognosis. At the same time,...

journal_title：Japanese journal of clinical oncology

authors： Asada K,Watanabe N,Nakamura Y,Ohira M,Westermann F,Schwab M,Nakagawara A,Ushijima T

更新日期：2013-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:To evaluate pathological complete response rate and to identify the predictor of response after primary systemic chemotherapy (PST) with weekly docetaxel and epirubicin for locally advanced breast cancer. METHODS:Sixty-three patients with locally advanced breast cancer received three cycles PST on day 1 and...

journal_title：Japanese journal of clinical oncology

authors： Chen SC,Chang HK,Lin YC,Hsueh S,Cheung YC,Leung WM,Tsai CS,Lo YF,Tsai HP,Shen SC,Chen MF

更新日期：2008-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:The prognosis of breast cancer-derived brain metastasis is poor, but new drugs and recent therapeutic strategies have helped extend survival in patients. Prediction of therapeutic responses and outcomes is not yet possible, however. In a retrospective study, we examined prognostic factors in patients with bre...

journal_title：Japanese journal of clinical oncology

authors： Honda Y,Aruga T,Yamashita T,Miyamoto H,Horiguchi K,Kitagawa D,Idera N,Goto R,Kuroi K

更新日期：2015-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:To improve palliative care practice, the need for patients-reported outcome measures is increasing globally. The Integrated Palliative care Outcome Scale (IPOS) is a streamlined outcome scale developed to comprehensively evaluate patients' distress. The goal of this study is to assess the reliability and val...

journal_title：Japanese journal of clinical oncology

authors： Sakurai H,Miyashita M,Imai K,Miyamoto S,Otani H,Oishi A,Kizawa Y,Matsushima E

更新日期：2019-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The relations between alcohol consumption and cancers of the breast, corpus uteri and ovary were investigated in a case-control study involving 1,740 cases of breast cancer, 239 cases of cancer of the corpus uteri, 417 cases of ovarian cancer and 8,920 controls with other cancer sites identified from the Aichi Cancer ...

journal_title：Japanese journal of clinical oncology

authors： Kato I,Tominaga S,Terao C

更新日期：1989-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Patterns of cancer incidence and radiotherapy use are similar in Korea and Japan, with differences in radiotherapy infrastructure. METHODS:The authors surveyed the megavoltage machines in 91 radiotherapy centers in Korea and published data in Japan. The number of megavoltage machines per center was used as ...

journal_title：Japanese journal of clinical oncology

authors： Huh SJ,Nishimura T,Park W,Nakamura K

更新日期：2019-12-18 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:Breast cancers in the early phase frequently undergo distant metastasis and survival of patients is greatly dependent on distant metastasis. The occurrence of micrometastasis has been suggested to relate with prognostic features of breast cancer, such as lymph node metastasis and the presence of vascular invasi...

journal_title：Japanese journal of clinical oncology

authors： Jung YS,Lee KJ,Kim HJ,Yim HE,Park JS,Soh EY,Kim MW,Park HB

更新日期：2003-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 56-year-old Japanese man in whom a descending colon carcinoma had been resected underwent a high orchitectomy for metastatic epididymis from the colon. Metastatic carcinoma from the digestive organs to the spermatic cord (SC) and/or the intrascrotal contents (ISC) is rare. Fifty-four Japanese patients with metastasi...

journal_title：Japanese journal of clinical oncology

authors： Kanno K,Ohwada S,Nakamura S,Ohya T,Iino Y,Morishita Y,Hayashi M,Yamanaka H,Fukusato T,Koyama T

更新日期：1994-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：Background:The prevalence and molecular characteristics of defective mismatch repair epithelial ovarian cancers in the Japanese population have scarcely been investigated. Methods:Immunohistochemistry for mismatch repair proteins (MLH1, MSH2, MSH6 and PMS2) was performed in formalin-fixed paraffin-embedded sections pr...

journal_title：Japanese journal of clinical oncology

authors： Tajima Y,Eguchi H,Chika N,Nagai T,Dechamethakun S,Kumamoto K,Tachikawa T,Akagi K,Tamaru JI,Seki H,Okazaki Y,Ishida H

更新日期：2018-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Projecting cancer mortality is fundamental to the process of planning cancer control. Although the prefecture is one of the main units for the implementation and evaluation of cancer control in Japan, a long-term detailed future projection of cancer mortality has not been conducted by prefecture. The main objective of...

journal_title：Japanese journal of clinical oncology

authors： Fukui K,Ito Y,Nakayama T

更新日期：2019-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Apocrine carcinoma, a subtype of invasive ductal carcinoma of the breast, expresses androgen receptor (AR), but often lacks estrogen receptor (ER) and progesterone receptor (PgR). In the present study, the author immunohistochemically defined apocrine-type carcinoma as ER-/PgR-/AR+ invasive ductal carcinoma a...

journal_title：Japanese journal of clinical oncology

authors： Tsutsumi Y

更新日期：2012-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report a 41-year-old woman with a retroperitoneal schwannoma mimicking hepatic tumor in the caudate lobe. Dynamic computed tomography in the early phase showed an enhanced tumor (2.7 cm in diameter) in the Spiegel lobe of the liver, which compressed the inferior vena cava (IVC). We also performed left hepatic angio...

journal_title：Japanese journal of clinical oncology

authors： Nakamura M,Takayama T,Takayasu K,Shimada K,Yamamoto J,Kosuge T,Sakamoto M,Yamasaki S,Shimizu S,Makuuchi M

更新日期：1997-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fibroadenoma of the breast is a common benign disease, occurring mainly in females younger than 30 years of age. Infant fibroadenoma is extremely rare. Here, we report on a 16-month-old female with a 6 month history of unilateral progressive breast enlargement. Upon clinical evaluation, a palpable mass was observed in...

journal_title：Japanese journal of clinical oncology

authors： Shi A,Li S,Xu N,Nie G,Li X,Zhang T,Fan Z

更新日期：2011-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A combined ischiopubic rami resection is extremely rare in the field of gastroenterologic surgery. We report a case of a locally recurrent rectal cancer that was successfully treated by total pelvic exenteration with combined ischiopubic rami resection. A 58-year-old male with locally recurrent rectal cancer and liver...

journal_title：Japanese journal of clinical oncology

authors： Uehara K,Yoshioka Y,Taguchi Y,Igami T,Ebata T,Yokoyama Y,Sugawara G,Tsukushi S,Nishida Y,Yoshino Y,Nagino M

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:In this Phase 2 multicenter study the efficacy and safety of oral abiraterone acetate (1000 mg/once daily) plus prednisolone (5 mg/twice daily) was evaluated in metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer patients from Japan who had previously received docetaxel-based chemotherapy. METHODS:Men (aged ≥20 ...

journal_title：Japanese journal of clinical oncology

authors： Satoh T,Uemura H,Tanabe K,Nishiyama T,Terai A,Yokomizo A,Nakatani T,Imanaka K,Ozono S,Akaza H

更新日期：2014-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chemoradiotherapy has been clinically indicated for patients with resectable esophageal squamous cell carcinoma who refuse surgical resection and in locally advanced unresectable esophageal squamous cell carcinoma patients. Concurrent chemoradiotherapy prolongs survival than radiation therapy alone when given as defin...

journal_title：Japanese journal of clinical oncology

authors： Sasaki Y,Kato K

更新日期：2016-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：Background:The poor clinical prognosis of Stage IIIB colon cancer patients is due in part to the current lack of an effective diagnostic method being available and highlights a need for the identification of novel biomarkers like microRNA (miRNA). Patients and methods:We used microarray analysis to compare the miRNA e...

journal_title：Japanese journal of clinical oncology

authors： Li P,Ou Q,Braciak TA,Chen G,Oduncu FS

更新日期：2018-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The development of PD-1 pathway inhibitors has dramatically altered the treatment of advanced/recurrent non-small-cell lung cancer patients. However, the prognostic significance of their ongoing usage is controversial, especially for patients who have not progressed for a period of time. If discontinuation has no nega...

journal_title：Japanese journal of clinical oncology

authors： Nomura S,Goto Y,Mizutani T,Kataoka T,Kawai S,Okuma Y,Murakami H,Tanaka K,Ohe Y

更新日期：2020-07-09 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:There are few reports of the outcomes of external beam radiotherapy in Asian males with localized prostate cancer. The aim of this study is to evaluate the long-term outcomes of external beam irradiation using three-dimensional two-dynamic conformal arc therapy, combined with neoadjuvant hormonal therapy, in ...

journal_title：Japanese journal of clinical oncology

authors： Ikeda I,Mizowaki T,Norihisa Y,Takayama K,Kamba T,Inoue T,Nakamura E,Kamoto T,Ogawa O,Hiraoka M

更新日期：2014-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:The estimated glomerular filtration rate is significantly decreased after nephroureterectomy. Deteriorating renal function likely affects the eligibility for cisplatin-based chemotherapy in patients with upper tract urothelial carcinoma. The present study was undertaken to identify preoperative factors for th...

journal_title：Japanese journal of clinical oncology

authors： Hashimoto T,Ohno Y,Nakashima J,Gondo T,Nakagami Y,Namiki K,Horiguchi Y,Yoshioka K,Ohori M,Tachibana M

更新日期：2015-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Fibulin-1 is a member of the fibulin gene family, characterized by tandem arrays of epidermal growth factor-like domains and a C-terminal fibulin-type module. Fibulin-1 plays important roles in a range of cellular functions including morphology, growth, adhesion and mobility. It acts as a tumor suppressor gen...

journal_title：Japanese journal of clinical oncology

authors： Cui Y,Liu J,Yin HB,Liu YF,Liu JH

更新日期：2015-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Endobronchial ultrasound with a guide sheath has been a widely used diagnostic procedure for peripheral pulmonary lesions. After sequential sampling with the usual devices, small portions of the collected specimen remain in the guide sheath and these can potentially contribute to diagnosis. We assessed the di...

journal_title：Japanese journal of clinical oncology

authors： Izumo T,Sasada S,Chavez C,Matsumoto Y,Hayama M,Tsuchida T

更新日期：2015-04-01 00:00:00