Adjuvant chemotherapy for gastric cancer in Japan: present status and suggestions for rational clinical trials.

abstract：BACKGROUND:This retrospective study aimed to evaluate the efficacy of a 3.6-mg dose of pegfilgrastim for primary prophylaxis in Japanese breast cancer patients receiving dose-dense chemotherapy. METHODS:Patients treated with adjuvant or neoadjuvant chemotherapy for early-stage breast cancer at the Tokyo-West Tokushuka...

journal_title：Japanese journal of clinical oncology

authors： Mizuno Y,Fuchikami H,Takeda N,Iwai M,Sato K

更新日期：2017-01-01 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：:AMG 337, a selective small-molecule MET inhibitor, was evaluated in Asian patients with advanced solid tumors. Eligible patients orally self-administered AMG 337; the initial dose of 150 mg once daily (QD) was escalated to 300 mg QD (modified 3+3+3 design). Treatment continued until disease progression, intolerability...

journal_title：Japanese journal of clinical oncology

authors： Yasui H,Go N,Yang H,Amore BM,Jung AS,Doi T

更新日期：2017-08-01 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：OBJECTIVE:We retrospectively evaluated long-term oncological outcomes in patients with germ cell tumors (GCTs) primarily treated at our institution and assessed late recurrence and second primary malignancies. METHODS:This study included a total of 139 males with newly diagnosed GCTs of the testis or extragonadal orig...

journal_title：Japanese journal of clinical oncology

authors： Sato S,Tanaka T,Takahashi A,Sasai M,Kitamura H,Masumori N,Tsukamoto T

更新日期：2010-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Many psychosocial factors have been reported to influence the duration of survival of breast cancer patients. We have studied how family members, hobbies and habits of the patients may alter their psychosocial status. Female patients with surgically treated breast cancer diagnosed between 1986 and 1995 at the Tochigi ...

journal_title：Japanese journal of clinical oncology

authors： Tominaga K,Andow J,Koyama Y,Numao S,Kurokawa E,Ojima M,Nagai M

更新日期：1998-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pure red cell aplasia (PRCA) rarely occurs in non-thymic lymphoproliferative disorders. The present article describes a patient with non-Hodgkin's lymphoma (follicular, mixed type), who concurrently developed PRCA and warm type autoimmune hemolytic anemia during the clinical course. The PRCA and hemolytic anemia were ...

journal_title：Japanese journal of clinical oncology

authors： Suzuki A,Takahashi T,Taniguchi A,Kotake C,Seo T,Toda T,Kobayashi K,Tsukamoto N,Fukumoto M

更新日期：1991-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Giant cell tumor (GCT) of bone is a rare and unpredictable lesion. Its standard treatment has ranged from surgical curettage to wide resection and varying oncological and functional results have been reported. METHODS:A retrospective review of 47 patients (17 males and 30 females) with GCT of bone was perfo...

journal_title：Japanese journal of clinical oncology

authors： Oda Y,Miura H,Tsuneyoshi M,Iwamoto Y

更新日期：1998-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Resections are effective for some patients with both hepatic and pulmonary metastases of colorectal cancer, but the best selection criteria for the resections and effective treatment for recurrence after the resections have not been determined. METHODS:A retrospective analysis was performed for 30 consecuti...

journal_title：Japanese journal of clinical oncology

authors： Takahashi S,Nagai K,Saito N,Konishi M,Nakagohri T,Gotohda N,Nishimura M,Yoshida J,Kinoshita T

更新日期：2007-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A double blind study to compare the efficacy of oral UFT (400 mg Tegafur (FT) plus 896 mg uracil/day) with that of oral FT (800 mg/day) on advanced breast cancer was performed between November, 1986, and November, 1989. Sixty patients were registered for the trial and fifty-six cases were evaluated (28 for UFT and 28 ...

journal_title：Japanese journal of clinical oncology

authors： Tashiro H,Nomura Y,Ohsaki A

更新日期：1994-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Communicating the discontinuation of anticancer treatment to patients is a difficult task. The primary aim of this study was to clarify the level of oncologist-reported burden when communicating about discontinuation of an anticancer treatment. The secondary aims were (i) to identify the sources of burden con...

journal_title：Japanese journal of clinical oncology

authors： Otani H,Morita T,Esaki T,Ariyama H,Tsukasa K,Oshima A,Shiraisi K

更新日期：2011-08-01 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:Breast cancer is a heterogeneous disease. The aim of this prospective study, in which fluorescence in situ hybridization was used to determine human epidermal growth factor receptor 2 status in primary breast cancers and in the lymph node metastases, was to verify the stability of human epidermal growth facto...

journal_title：Japanese journal of clinical oncology

authors： Aoyama K,Kamio T,Nishikawa T,Kameoka S

更新日期：2010-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:During the period 1962-1986, 43 lung cancer patients, 2.3% of the 1,832 patients who underwent pulmonary resections at the National Cancer Center Hospital, Tokyo, had tumors greater than 10 cm in diameter. These 43 cancers were classified postsurgically according to the 1987 guidelines for TNM classification of malign...

journal_title：Japanese journal of clinical oncology

authors： Sano T,Naruke T,Kondo H,Goya T,Tsuchiya R,Suemasu K

更新日期：1990-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Docetaxel plus cisplatin (DP) is a combination chemotherapy regimen that is active against untreated advanced gastric cancer. We evaluated the feasibility of DP treatment in patients with recurring or metastatic gastric cancer who had been previously treated with other chemotherapy regimens. PATIENTS AND ME...

journal_title：Japanese journal of clinical oncology

authors： Kim H,Park JH,Bang SJ,Kim DH,Cho HR,Kim GY,Min YJ

更新日期：2005-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：Background and purpose:The objective of this study is to investigate the predictors of critical weight loss in cancer patients receiving particle therapy, and build a prediction model based on its predictive factors. Materials and methods:Patients receiving particle therapy were enroled between June 2015 and June 2016...

journal_title：Japanese journal of clinical oncology

authors： Zhang Z,Zhu Y,Zhang L,Wang Z,Wan H

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:There have been few reports of sarcoid reaction in the regional lymph nodes associated with lung cancer. The purpose of this study was to analyze the surgical results of lung cancer with sarcoid reaction. METHODS:Of 1733 lung cancer patients undergoing surgical treatment in our institute from 1990 to 2004, ...

journal_title：Japanese journal of clinical oncology

authors： Tomimaru Y,Higashiyama M,Okami J,Oda K,Takami K,Kodama K,Tsukamoto Y

更新日期：2007-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Patients with T1G3 bladder cancer are at high risk of progression to muscle-invasive cancer, and early cystectomy is considered as a treatment option in this particular situation. On the other hand, understaging of T1G3 bladder cancer has been gradually proven as second or repeat transurethral resection (TUR)...

journal_title：Japanese journal of clinical oncology

authors： Shindo T,Masumori N,Fukuta F,Miyamoto S,Tsukamoto T

更新日期：2010-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In order to determine the significance of androgen receptor (AR) gene mutations for Japanese prostate cancers, we examined the entire coding region, from exon A to H, in 36 primary lesions. Five in stage A, 12 in stage B, six in stage C and 13 in stage D were subjected to PCR-SSCP analysis for genomic DNA and nucleoti...

journal_title：Japanese journal of clinical oncology

authors： Watanabe M,Ushijima T,Shiraishi T,Yatani R,Shimazaki J,Kotake T,Sugimura T,Nagao M

更新日期：1997-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To evaluate computed tomography findings and assess the clinical course of patients with pulmonary epithelioid hemangioendothelioma. METHODS:Patients diagnosed with pulmonary epithelioid hemangioendothelioma at our institution between 2000 and 2019 were retrospectively analyzed. Patients with pleural involv...

journal_title：Japanese journal of clinical oncology

authors： Onishi Y,Kusumoto M,Goto Y,Kaku S,Motoi N

更新日期：2020-09-28 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Human papillomavirus vaccines are being introduced worldwide and are expected to reduce the incidence of cervical cancer. Here we report a cross-sectional study using a validated human papillomavirus genotyping method to reveal the human papillomavirus prevalence and genotype distribution in Japanese women wi...

journal_title：Japanese journal of clinical oncology

authors： Azuma Y,Kusumoto-Matsuo R,Takeuchi F,Uenoyama A,Kondo K,Tsunoda H,Nagasaka K,Kawana K,Morisada T,Iwata T,Aoki D,Kukimoto I

更新日期：2014-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:To report the results of radiotherapy for patients with failure, adverse reactions or relative contraindications to the use of steroids or immunosuppressants, by using newly developed quantitative indexes. METHODS:Fourteen female and six male patients with Graves' ophthalmopathy were treated with radiothera...

journal_title：Japanese journal of clinical oncology

authors： Sakata K,Hareyama M,Oouchi A,Shidou M,Nagakura H,Morita K,Osanai H,Ohtsuka K,Hinoda Y

更新日期：1998-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:The treatment modality for desmoid-type fibromatosis has shifted from surgery to conservative treatment. This systematic review aims to evaluate the efficacy of low-dose chemotherapy with methotrexate and vinblastine for patients with extra-abdominal desmoid-type fibromatosis. METHODS:We searched the pertine...

journal_title：Japanese journal of clinical oncology

authors： Shimizu K,Hamada S,Sakai T,Koike H,Yoshida M,Nishida Y

更新日期：2020-04-07 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Oral carmofur, either as a single or in combination with other chemotherapeutic agents, has been used as adjuvant chemotherapy for curatively resected colon cancer patients. Past trials and meta-analyses indicate that it is somewhat effective in extending survival of patients with this cancer. The objective ...

journal_title：Japanese journal of clinical oncology

authors： Sakamoto J,Hamada C,Rahman M,Kodaira S,Ito K,Nakazato H,Ohashi Y,Yasutomi M

更新日期：2005-09-01 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：OBJECTIVE:To clarify the clinical outcomes of stereotactic body radiotherapy for colorectal cancer-derived bone metastases and identify factors predicting treatment failure. METHODS:Patients treated with stereotactic body radiotherapy for bone metastases from colorectal cancer between September 2013 and June 2019 were...

journal_title：Japanese journal of clinical oncology

authors： Ito K,Yamaguchi T,Ogawa H,Nakajima Y,Karasawa K

更新日期：2020-12-16 00:00:00

abstract：Introduction:Since June 2005, the University Hospital Medical Information Network-Clinical Trial Registry (UMIN-CTR) has been an International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE)-approved clinical trial registry in Japan. The number of clinical trials registered in the UMIN-CTR has increased annually. To date,...

journal_title：Japanese journal of clinical oncology

authors： Ochi N,Kawahara T,Nagasaki Y,Nakagawa N,Yamagishi T,Umemura S,Honda Y,Nakanishi H,Yamane H,Takigawa N

更新日期：2018-11-01 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：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：:Recent studies have suggested that glutathione S-transferase pi (GST-pi) may play a role in determining tumor sensitivities to cytotoxic drugs. In order to better understand the role of this enzyme in chemo- and/or radioresistance of lung cancer cells, we examined whether introduction of GST-pi cDNA into a chemo- and ...

journal_title：Japanese journal of clinical oncology

authors： Miyara H,Hida T,Nishida K,Takahashi T,Sugiura T,Ariyoshi Y,Morishita M,Takahashi T,Ueda R

更新日期：1996-02-01 00:00:00