The distress and benefit to bereaved family members of participating in a post-bereavement survey.

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：: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：:The prognosis of multiple myeloma was quite poor in the last century, but it has significantly improved with the incorporation of novel agents, immunomodulatory drugs (IMiDs) and proteasome inhibitors. Thalidomide was first developed as a sedative in 1950s, but it was withdrawn from the market because of teratogenicit...

journal_title：Japanese journal of clinical oncology

authors： Abe Y,Ishida T

更新日期：2019-08-01 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：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：:An asymptomatic 11-year-old Japanese boy with an endodermal sinus (yolk sac) tumor of the anterior mediastinum was successfully treated with cisplatinum-based combination chemotherapy and subsequent surgical excision. The patient is alive and in good health 60 months from diagnosis. ...

journal_title：Japanese journal of clinical oncology

authors： Seki Y,Ishida I

更新日期：1991-12-01 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：: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：BACKGROUND:Chromosomal numerical abnormality (CNA) is a characteristic of breast cancer as with other common solid cancers. Multiple mammary carcinomas are also sometimes encountered in the ipsilateral breast. Deciding whether they are multicentric (arising independently) or multifocal (of the same origin) has been a c...

journal_title：Japanese journal of clinical oncology

authors： Nakamura R,Song JP,Isogaki J,Kitayama Y,Sugimura H

更新日期：2003-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An analysis is presented of the histopathologic, clinical and prognostic features of malignant lymphomas (MLs) treated at the University of the Philippines-Philippine General Hospital Medical Center, Manila, between 1975 and 1981. There were 434 malignant lymphomas, constituting 3.86% of all cancers studied at this in...

journal_title：Japanese journal of clinical oncology

authors： Calderon B,Villalon A,Augustin B,Javier B,Zamuco J,Mori S

更新日期：1986-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:The purpose of this study was to evaluate patient-related parameters that determine ovarian cyst formation in women using tamoxifen for breast cancer. METHODS:A retrospective review of tamoxifen-treated women with breast cancer who were followed up in the outpatient clinic at Ankara Oncology Hospital between...

journal_title：Japanese journal of clinical oncology

authors： Metindir J,Aslan S,Bilir G

更新日期：2005-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:A Patterns of Care Study (PCS) has been conducted to evaluate the standards of practice for prostate cancer patients treated with radiotherapy in Japan. This study examines the influence of institutional stratification on the process of care for patients receiving radical external beam radiotherapy for prost...

journal_title：Japanese journal of clinical oncology

authors： Ogawa K,Nakamura K,Sasaki T,Yamamoto T,Koizumi M,Teshima T,Inoue T,Japanese Patterns of Care Study Working Subgroup on Prostate Cancer.

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Inguinal lymph node metastasis from adenocarcinoma arising at a colostomy site is extremely rare, and the significance of surgical resection for metastatic inguinal lymph nodes has not been established. An 82-year-old woman who had undergone abdominoperineal resection 27 years earlier was admitted to our hospital comp...

journal_title：Japanese journal of clinical oncology

authors： Iwamoto M,Kawada K,Hida K,Hasegawa S,Sakai Y

更新日期：2015-02-01 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：: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：:The use of lymphokine activated killer (LAK) cells for adoptive transfer therapy has been reported from number of clinical trials. To our knowledge, however, there has been no report concerning the cell cycle progression of LAK cells. Thus, for the present study we have attempted to examine the LAK cell cycle either b...

journal_title：Japanese journal of clinical oncology

authors： Watanabe R,Tanaka N,Naomoto Y,Moreira LF,Orita K

更新日期：1994-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Regular endoscopic surveillance for Lynch syndrome is reported to reduce colorectal cancer (CRC)-related mortality. However, the appropriate surveillance intervals are still unclear. We evaluated the adequacy of annual colonoscopy and investigated the differences in tumor occurrence rates between individual ...

journal_title：Japanese journal of clinical oncology

authors： Taniguchi F,Tanakaya K,Sugano K,Akagi K,Ishida H,Nagahisa S,Nishimura S,Une Y,Kimura Y,Watanabe M,Utsumi M,Aoki H

更新日期：2020-06-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Cancer is the leading cause of mortality in Singapore. The age-standardized incidence rates continue to increase as the population grows and ages, and the influence of environmental and lifestyle choices bear their consequences. The increase is most marked in colorectal, breast and prostate cancers, mirroring the most...

journal_title：Japanese journal of clinical oncology

authors： Teo MC,Soo KC

更新日期：2013-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:We investigated the expression of PyNPase both in cancer cells and in stroma cells to clarify the correlation between PyNPase expression and the prognosis of patients with colorectal cancer. METHODS:Using immunohistochemical staining with an anti-PyNPase antibody, the PyNPase expression in tissues from 114 ...

journal_title：Japanese journal of clinical oncology

authors： Osanai T,Ichikawa W,Takagi Y,Uetake H,Nihei Z,Sugihara K

更新日期：2001-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The present report describes a 69-year-old man displaying the clinical features of the Cronkhite-Canada syndrome. After taking medicine for the common cold, he suffered hypogeusia and watery diarrhea, eruptions on the lower extremities and an 8 kg loss in body weight. All his finger and toenails began to fall out. He ...

journal_title：Japanese journal of clinical oncology

authors： Kaneko Y,Kato H,Tachimori Y,Watanabe H,Ushio K,Yamaguchi H,Itabashi M,Noguchi M

更新日期：1991-06-01 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：:Five cases of recurrent cervical carcinoma with sites of recurrence restricted to the pelvis were treated by intra-arterial infusion of oncostatics via the bilateral internal iliac arteries. One tip of the catheter was positioned in the internal iliac artery, proximal and close to the superior glutea artery, through t...

journal_title：Japanese journal of clinical oncology

authors： Kawagoe K,Iijima S,Sasaki J

更新日期：1983-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:To estimate the effect of tumor volume on local-regional control of pharyngolaryngeal cancer by radiotherapy (RT). METHODS:Definitive RT for 48 patients with squamous cell carcinoma of the lateral wall of the oropharynx, pyriform sinus and supraglottic larynx was reviewed. Tumor volume was estimated from co...

journal_title：Japanese journal of clinical oncology

authors： Kawashima M,Ogino T,Fujii H,Ishikura S,Ito Y,Ikeda H

更新日期：1999-10-01 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:Second primary malignancies have become the leading cause of death in retinoblastoma survivors. Although osteosarcoma is the most common second malignancy, little is known about its clinical and therapeutic features. METHODS:We retrospectively reviewed a database of patients with retinoblastoma and osteosarc...

journal_title：Japanese journal of clinical oncology

authors： Fujiwara T,Fujiwara M,Numoto K,Ogura K,Yoshida A,Yonemoto T,Suzuki S,Kawai A

更新日期：2015-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Since there is now growing interest in the incorporation of patient-reported outcome measures in cancer clinical trials, a patient-based questionnaire, the Patient Neurotoxicity Questionnaire (PNQ) was developed to quantify the symptoms and severity of chemotherapy-induced peripheral neuropathy (CIPN). The ai...

journal_title：Japanese journal of clinical oncology

authors： Kuroi K,Shimozuma K,Ohashi Y,Takeuchi A,Aranishi T,Morita S,Ohsumi S,Watanabe T,Bain S,Hausheer FH

更新日期：2008-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This is a review regarding the current therapeutic strategies in the management of multiple myeloma. Due to the introduction of several new effective therapeutic agents, multiple myeloma is one of the most active and changing fields in clinical oncology. Multiple myeloma is caused by the expansion of monoclonal plasma...

journal_title：Japanese journal of clinical oncology

authors： Suzuki K

更新日期：2013-02-01 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：OBJECTIVE:This multicenter, open-label, single-arm, Phase II study assessed the efficacy of a neoadjuvant chemotherapy with docetaxel (75 mg/m(2) q3w) followed by 5-fluorouracil 500 mg/m(2), epirubicin 100 mg/m(2) and cyclophosphamide 500 mg/m(2) q3w in patients with early-stage breast cancer. METHODS:Women with resec...

journal_title：Japanese journal of clinical oncology

authors： Iwata H,Sato N,Masuda N,Nakamura S,Yamamoto N,Kuroi K,Kurosumi M,Tsuda H,Akiyama F,Ohashi Y,Toi M

更新日期：2011-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Alendronate, a bisphosphonate compound, lowers serum calcium in patients with cancer-associated hypercalcemia through its inhibitory effect on bone resorption and as a result symptoms associated with hypercalcemia improve. This study was carried out to investigate the effects of alendronate in patients with hypercalce...

journal_title：Japanese journal of clinical oncology

authors： Ohnishi T,Takeda E,Yogita S,Miyake H,Kinoshita T,Terashima Y,Matsumoto T,Tashiro S

更新日期：2000-09-01 00:00:00