Primary endodermal sinus (yolk sac) tumor of the anterior mediastinum: a report of a successfully treated eleven-year-old boy.

abstract：OBJECTIVE:We evaluated the feasibility of combination chemotherapy with paclitaxel, doxorubicin and cisplatin without prophylactic granulocyte colony-stimulating factor injection for intermediate-to-high-risk or recurrent endometrial cancer. METHODS:Women with histologically confirmed FIGO Stages I-II with >1/2 myomet...

journal_title：Japanese journal of clinical oncology

authors： Nagao S,Nishikawa T,Hanaoka T,Kurosaki A,Iwasa N,Hasegawa K,Fujiwara K

更新日期：2014-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:We conducted a questionnaire survey of oncology specialists to investigate the frequency of administration of different drugs for the management of chemotherapy-induced peripheral neuropathy in Japan in 2015. Our group published Clinical Guidelines for the Management of Chemotherapy-Induced Peripheral Neuropa...

journal_title：Japanese journal of clinical oncology

authors： Hirayama Y,Yoshida Y,Mori M,Tamura K

更新日期：2020-08-04 00:00:00

abstract：:A case of primary malignant lymphoma of the skull base is reported. A 62-year-old man was admitted with headache and diplopia. Computed tomography and magnetic resonance imaging showed an abnormal mass in the right parasellar region. The final diagnosis after surgery was primary malignant lymphoma of the skull base. P...

journal_title：Japanese journal of clinical oncology

authors： Oyama H,Nagane M,Shibui S,Nomura K,Mukai K

更新日期：1992-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:The aim of this study is to evaluate the liver metastasis risk among colorectal cancer patients with liver cirrhosis. METHODS:This was a nationwide population-based cohort study of 2973 newly diagnosed colorectal cancer patients with liver cirrhosis and 11 892 age-sex matched controls enrolled in Taiwan betw...

journal_title：Japanese journal of clinical oncology

authors： Chiou WY,Chang CM,Tseng KC,Hung SK,Lin HY,Chen YC,Su YC,Tseng CW,Tsai SJ,Lee MS,Li CY

更新日期：2015-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:We evaluated whether color Doppler ultrasound (US) had diagnostic accuracy equal to dynamic computed tomography (CT) and whether performing dynamic CT and Doppler US together would be more informative in preoperative diagnosis of renal solid tumors. METHODS:A total of 110 renal solid tumors smaller than 7 c...

journal_title：Japanese journal of clinical oncology

authors： Kitamura H,Fujimoto H,Tobisu K,Mizuguchi Y,Maeda T,Matsuoka N,Komiyama M,Nakagawa T,Kakizoe T

更新日期：2004-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Among 492 patients with esophageal carcinoma who received resective surgery, 102 survived over 5 years. These 5-year survivors were analyzed according to many factors. Females had a better prognosis than males, and patients without lymph-node metastasis had a better 5-year survival rate than those with it. Ten patient...

journal_title：Japanese journal of clinical oncology

authors： Iizuka T,Kato H,Watanabe H

更新日期：1985-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 60-year-old man with pharyngeal carcinoma developed spontaneous pneumothorax. A biopsied lung tissue revealed an extensive granulomatous reaction to some yellow material. Because of the patient's frequent aspirations of the liquid diet which was mixed with an artificial lemon flavor, it is considered that the aspira...

journal_title：Japanese journal of clinical oncology

authors： Yamashina M,Moatamed F

更新日期：1987-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The outcomes of patients with localized or locally advanced prostate cancer treated with external-beam radiotherapy are not well known in Japan. METHODS:Thirty-four institutions combined data on 679 patients with localized or locally advanced prostate cancer treated with a total dose >/=60 Gy between 1995 a...

journal_title：Japanese journal of clinical oncology

authors： Nakamura K,Mizowaki T,Imada H,Karasawa K,Uno T,Onishi H,Nihei K,Sasaki S,Ogura M,Akimoto T

更新日期：2008-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A thyroid ultrasound examination programme has been conducted in Fukushima Prefecture, Japan, after the nuclear disaster in 2011. Although remarkably high prevalence of thyroid cancer was observed, no relevant quantitative evaluation was conducted. We calculated the observed/expected (O/E) ratio of thyroid cancer prev...

journal_title：Japanese journal of clinical oncology

authors： Katanoda K,Kamo K,Tsugane S

更新日期：2016-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Immunohistochemical studies using antisera to keratin and secretory component (SC) and monoclonal antibody against leukocyte common antigen (LCA) were performed on 92 biopsy and autopsy specimens taken from 65 patients with nasopharyngeal carcinoma. Five biopsy specimens from malignant lymphoma of the nasopharynx and ...

journal_title：Japanese journal of clinical oncology

authors： Nomori H,Kameya T,Shimosato Y,Saito H,Ebihara S,Ono I

更新日期：1985-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Although a series of histopathological criteria have been suggested, the prediction of the malignant potential of gastrointestinal stromal tumors (GIST) is still difficult. The older literature called all gastrointestinal stromal tumors smooth muscle tumors or mixed GIST with true smooth muscle tumors. Repor...

journal_title：Japanese journal of clinical oncology

authors： Wang X,Mori I,Tang W,Utsunomiya H,Nakamura M,Nakamura Y,Zhou G,Kennichi K

更新日期：2002-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To date, there are few reliable markers to distinguish tumors with aggressive characteristics in upper tract urothelial carcinoma. The purpose of this study was to identify a biomarker related to genetic instability (chromosomal instability or microsatellite instability) with prognostic value, in patients wit...

journal_title：Japanese journal of clinical oncology

authors： Yamamoto Y,Oga A,Akao J,Misumi T,Fuji N,Kobayashi K,Kawai Y,Inoue R,Hirata H,Matsumoto H,Nagao K,Sakano S,Matsuyama H

更新日期：2016-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Duodenal carcinoma is very rare and its culture cell lines have rarely been established. METHODS:Tumor cells separated from a surgically resected primary tumor of duodenal carcinoma were put into culture. The patient was an 81-year-old female and had metastatic lymph nodes. We investigated the biological ch...

journal_title：Japanese journal of clinical oncology

authors： Tani M,Tanimura H,Terasawa H,Yamade N,Shono Y,Yamaue H

更新日期：1999-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:The value of postmastectomy radiation therapy for breast cancer patients with T1-2 tumor and one to three positive nodes remains controversial. The purpose of this retrospective study was to compare the clinical outcomes of breast cancer patients with T1-2 and one to three positive nodes with and without post...

journal_title：Japanese journal of clinical oncology

authors： Huang CJ,Hou MF,Chuang HY,Lian SL,Huang MY,Chen FM,Fu OY,Lin SF

更新日期：2012-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Cytokeratins (CKs) 19 and 20 have been used as targets for detecting cancer cells. We attempted to detect circulating cancer cells in patients with gastric cancer using a high-sensitivity reverse transcriptase-polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) assay for CK transcripts. METHODS:RT-PCR for CK 19 and CK 20 wa...

journal_title：Japanese journal of clinical oncology

authors： Majima T,Ichikura T,Takayama E,Chochi K,Mochizuki H

更新日期：2000-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A phase II study of chemoradiotherapy for advanced squamous cell carcinoma of the thoracic esophagus was carried out cooperatively by nine Japanese institutions. Forty-five patients with thoracic advanced squamous cell carcinoma, who had T4 tumor or distant lymph node metastasis (M1(LYM)), were enrolled in the study f...

journal_title：Japanese journal of clinical oncology

authors： Ishida K,Iizuka T,Ando N,Ide H

更新日期：1996-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Endometrial stromal sarcoma is known to be a hormone-dependent tumor. Efficacy of hormonal therapy including high-dose progestins, aromatase inhibitors or gonadotropin-releasing hormone analogs has been reported. We report a case of recurrent endometrial stromal sarcoma, the tumor cells of which were strongly positive...

journal_title：Japanese journal of clinical oncology

authors： Akashi D,Todo Y,Shimada C,Okamoto K,Minobe S,Kato H

更新日期：2013-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Low-dose-rate (LDR) brachytherapy is an effective treatment for tongue cancer. However, little is known about the biological mechanism underlying this therapy, characterized by delivery of continuous exposures of LDR irradiation. It is reported that lower microvessel density (MVD), lower Ki-67 index or higher...

journal_title：Japanese journal of clinical oncology

authors： Sakata K,Someya M,Nagakura H,Nakata K,Oouchi A,Takagi M,Hareyama M

更新日期：2008-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Although there have been extensive studies to determine risk factors affecting survival after resection for hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC), we still do not know which patients can survive disease free after curative resection. This study was undertaken to determine independent risk factors affecting the leng...

journal_title：Japanese journal of clinical oncology

authors： Takata M,Yamanaka N,Tanaka T,Yamanaka J,Maeda S,Okamoto E,Yasojima H,Uematsu K,Watanabe H,Uragari Y

更新日期：2000-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study is conducted to evaluate the efficacy and safety of preoperative exercise in patients with T1N0/T1N1/T2N0 gastric cancer and metabolic syndrome, which has emerged as a global health care issue. The primary endpoint is an incidence of perioperative complications and the secondary endpoints are weight change,...

journal_title：Japanese journal of clinical oncology

authors： Cho H,Tsuburaya A,Sakamoto J,Morita S,Oba K,Yoshikawa T,Miyajima N,Adjuvant Exercise for General Elective Surgery (AEGES) Study Group.

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Adenoid cystic carcinoma of the esophagus with multiple liver metastases was found in a 77-year-old Japanese female in October, 1991. Combination chemotherapy, including etoposide (VP-16) and tegafur (FT) allowed the patient to survive for approximately a year after the onset of the initial symptoms. During her course...

journal_title：Japanese journal of clinical oncology

authors： Matsumoto M,Nomiyama T,Nakae J,Nishikawa H

更新日期：1993-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Programmed death-ligand 1 is an immune modulator that promotes immunosuppression by binding to programmed death-1 of T-lymphocytes. Whereas programmed death-ligand 1 expression has been shown to be associated with the clinical response to anti-programmed death-ligand 1 antibody, the association of tumor prog...

journal_title：Japanese journal of clinical oncology

authors： Inamura K,Yokouchi Y,Sakakibara R,Kobayashi M,Subat S,Ninomiya H,Nagano H,Nomura K,Okumura S,Ishikawa Y

更新日期：2016-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study was conducted to assess, by continuous exposure, the inhibitory effects of rH-TNF and rH-IFN-alpha, -beta and -gamma, either alone or in combination, on the colony formations of human lung cancer cell lines. The cell lines tested were PC-7 and PC-9 (adenocarcinoma), PC-10 (squamous cell carcinoma) and PC-13...

journal_title：Japanese journal of clinical oncology

authors： Hong WS,Jett JR,Sasaki Y,Takahashi H,Nakano H,Nakagawa K,Hoshi A,Saijo N

更新日期：1987-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:CD10 is a cell surface metalloproteinase expressed by a variety of normal cell types, including lymphoid precursor cells, germinal center B lymphocytes and some epithelial cells. Although accumulating data indicate that CD10 expression by stromal cells is involved in colorectal carcinogenesis and it is a nov...

journal_title：Japanese journal of clinical oncology

authors： Huang WB,Zhou XJ,Chen JY,Zhang LH,Meng K,Ma HH,Lu ZF

更新日期：2005-05-01 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：:Over the past 10 years, immunotherapy with immune checkpoint inhibitors has revolutionized the management of various cancers. However, immunotherapy in breast cancer has not been successful. Breast cancer has long been recognized as an immunologically 'cold' tumor, although a higher frequency of tumor-infiltrating lym...

journal_title：Japanese journal of clinical oncology

authors： Noguchi E,Shien T,Iwata H

更新日期：2020-12-15 00:00:00

abstract：:In order to determine whether the epidemiological characteristics of lung cancer have changed within a certain period of time in Taiwan and to propose some causative factors for its rapid rate of increase we performed chronological and epidemiological studies based on the analysis of: (1) available vital statistics an...

journal_title：Japanese journal of clinical oncology

authors： Yang SP,Luh KT,Kuo SH,Lin CC

更新日期：1984-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Technological progress in the field of cancer treatment can be expected to accelerate in the future, giving hope to such patients. At the same time, there is concern that cancer care will become more expensive. It is indispensable to minimize the economic burden of patients to deliver technological advances in treatme...

journal_title：Japanese journal of clinical oncology

authors： Koinuma N

更新日期：2013-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：Purpose:To investigate the usefulness of screening for patient symptoms as the fifth vital sign using an electronic medical recording system. Patients and methods:In the electronic medical recording system, all admitted patients received routine nurse-based assessment of discomfort (defined as any physical symptom) at...

journal_title：Japanese journal of clinical oncology

authors： Naito AS,Sakuma Y,Kinoshita H,Ito T,Mimatsu S,Tarumi A,Kiyohara E,Morita T

更新日期：2017-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:One hundred and one cases of lung cancer were immunohistochemically studied for stainability with Leu-7 (anti-myelin fiber associated glycoprotein) and OKT-9 (anti-transferrin receptor) monoclonal antibodies. All small cell carcinomas and carcinoid tumors were positively stained by Leu-7, and 22 of 41 differentiated a...

journal_title：Japanese journal of clinical oncology

authors： Sato Y,Watanabe S,Kodama T,Goto M,Shimosato Y

更新日期：1985-09-01 00:00:00