Statistical inference for estimating the incidence of cancer at the prefectural level in Japan.

abstract：:We reviewed 1074 surgically treated patients with biliary tract cancer (gallbladder 564, bile duct 510) in Niigata prefecture in the five-year period from 1982 to 1986. Analyses of regional distributions revealed the incidence of gallbladder cancer to be highest in the Ka-etsu district (northern part of prefecture) an...

journal_title：Japanese journal of clinical oncology

authors： Kato K,Akai S

更新日期：1990-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Benefits of chemotherapy have generally been modest in gastric cancer, although those regimens developed more recently have produced higher response rates. Paclitaxel plus cisplatin is one such regimen and divided administration of paclitaxel has been suggested to be associated with lower neurological and he...

journal_title：Japanese journal of clinical oncology

authors： Kim YH,Yamaguchi K,Bang YJ,Takiuchi H,Kang WK,Sato A,Kang YK,Sakamoto J,Abe C,Sakata Y

更新日期：2007-07-01 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：:Cases of hyperfractionated radiotherapy and adjuvant chemotherapy for nasopharyngeal cancer are reported. Seven patients received hyperfractionated radiotherapy (76.8-81.6 Gy/64-68 fractions to primary tumor) and two cycles of cisplatin (80 mg/m2 i.v. on day 1) plus 5-FU (800 mg/m2 continuous infusion on days 2-6). Mu...

journal_title：Japanese journal of clinical oncology

authors： Toita T,Ogawa K,Kamata M,Kojya S,Itokazu T,Kakinohana Y,Iraha S,Yoshinaga M,Zukeran Y,Sawada S

更新日期：1999-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Second opinion is a common phenomenon in many health systems, especially in the care of patients with cancer. However, it is not clear whether second opinion seeking should be promoted or discouraged and how second opinion services and policies can be better formalized to maximize the benefits and minimize th...

journal_title：Japanese journal of clinical oncology

authors： Shin DW,Cho J,Yang HK,Kim SY,Mok HK,Lee H,Park SM,Huh JS,Ryu J,Park JH

更新日期：2016-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：Objective:The prognostic value of metabolic parameters using 18F-fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography/computed tomography (FDG PET/CT) has not been established for early non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC). Accordingly, the authors investigated the prognostic value of metabolic parameters in terms of failure ...

journal_title：Japanese journal of clinical oncology

authors： Lee J,Lee M,Koom WS,Kim HJ,Kim WC

更新日期：2018-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Seventy-four confirmed small cell lung cancer (SCLC) patients received alternating combination chemotherapy with CAV and PVP. The CAV comprised of cyclophosphamide 800 mg/m2 on day 1, adriamycin 50 mg/m2 on day 1 and vincristine 1.4 mg/m2 on day 1, administered every 3-4 weeks. The PVP comprised cisplatin 80 mg/m2 on ...

journal_title：Japanese journal of clinical oncology

authors： Bando H,Takishita Y,Ogura T,Sone S,Shimizu E,Nakayama T,Doi H,Kobayashi M

更新日期：1991-12-01 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:To describe computed tomographic (CT) features of highly enhanced hepatic masses as seen on CT during arterial portography (CTAP) and to survey the varieties of hepatic lesions associated with such findings. METHODS:CTAP files for 400 patients were reviewed, on the basis of which six patients with highly en...

journal_title：Japanese journal of clinical oncology

authors： Onaya H,Itai Y,Satake M,Luo T,Saida Y,Haruno M,Hasebe T,Moriyama N

更新日期：2000-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The occurrence of multiple primary cancers in the aerodigestive tract is a well known phenomenon that has been explained by the concept of 'field carcinogenesis'. Metachronous or synchronous esophageal cancer has usually been identified in patients with head and neck cancer, gastric cancer or colon cancer. The inciden...

journal_title：Japanese journal of clinical oncology

authors： Naomoto Y,Haisa M,Yamatsuji T,Shirakawa Y,Muramatsu T,Isozaki H,Kamikawa Y,Tanaka N

更新日期：1999-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUNDS:Mutations in the isocitrate dehydrogenase (IDH)1 gene are favourable prognostic factors in newly diagnosed diffuse gliomas, whereas it remains controversial in the recurrent glioblastoma setting. METHODS:A total of 171 patients with newly diagnosed glioblastoma, either 'primary' glioblastoma or 'secondary'...

journal_title：Japanese journal of clinical oncology

authors： Tabei Y,Kobayashi K,Saito K,Shimizu S,Suzuki K,Sasaki N,Shiokawa Y,Nagane M

更新日期：2021-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To elucidate the relationship between the clinical features and pathologic findings of primary pulmonary lymphoma, we reviewed 24 patients with this disease. The pulmonary lymphomas were divided into four groups: (1) B-cell lymphoma composed of small to medium-sized lymphoid cells (19 cases); (2) B-cell lymphoma compo...

journal_title：Japanese journal of clinical oncology

authors： Tamura A,Komatsu H,Yanai N,Homma J,Nagase A,Nemoto E,Hirai T,Hashizume T,Kawata K,Ishikawa S

更新日期：1995-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To evaluate the correlations between the changes in the quality-of-life scores and the dose-volume histogram parameters in patients receiving high-dose-rate brachytherapy combined with hypofractionated external beam radiation therapy for localized prostate cancer. METHODS:Among the patients who were treated ...

journal_title：Japanese journal of clinical oncology

authors： Hashimoto Y,Akimoto T,Iizuka J,Tanabe K,Mitsuhashi N

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This report describes a 78-year-old woman with insulinoma, treated with a combination of diphenylhydantoin and a calcium antagonist. The effectiveness of 200 mg of diphenylhydantoin and 180 mg of diltiazem was evaluated by measuring the levels of plasma glucose, immunoreactive insulin and immunoreactive insulin/plasma...

journal_title：Japanese journal of clinical oncology

authors： Imanaka S,Matsuda S,Ito K,Matsuoka T,Okada Y

更新日期：1986-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:S-1 plus cisplatin is a standard chemotherapy regimen for advanced non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC). The addition of bevacizumab has been shown to significantly improve overall survival (OS) in patients with advanced non-squamous (NSq) NSCLC who received carboplatin plus paclitaxel, however, failed to show...

journal_title：Japanese journal of clinical oncology

authors： Miyanaga A,Kubota K,Hosomi Y,Okuma Y,Minato K,Fujimoto S,Okamoto H,Satouchi M,Isobe H,Aono H,Takiguchi Y,Gemma A,Tokyo Cooperative Oncology Group.

更新日期：2019-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:The purpose of this study was to detect the presence of cancer stem-like cells with bronchioalveolar stem cells (BASCs) properties and investigate the clinicopathological role of expression of OCT4 as well as the correlation with clinical outcomes in adenocarcinoma of the lung. METHODS:Specimens of 112 cases...

journal_title：Japanese journal of clinical oncology

authors： Zhang X,Han B,Huang J,Zheng B,Geng Q,Aziz F,Dong Q

更新日期：2010-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sarcoma of the hypopharynx has been reported very rarely in the literature, only six cases having been found among all head and neck malignancies reported to SEER (Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results) during 1973-1987. We report a 14-year-old boy with a huge malignant soft tissue sarcoma arising from the hypop...

journal_title：Japanese journal of clinical oncology

authors： Lin JC,Hsu CY,Kwan PC,Shen WC,Jan JS,Ho WL

更新日期：1996-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Recent studies reported that hospital procedure volume (i.e. volume of patients per hospital receiving a particular treatment)was directly proportional to cancer survival; however the degree of association might be different according to the primary tumor site, extent of disease and year of diagnosis. We per...

journal_title：Japanese journal of clinical oncology

authors： Ioka A,Tsukuma H,Ajiki W,Oshima A

更新日期：2007-07-01 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

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:Most cancer patients become increasingly anxious toward the end of their life. The objective of this study was to identify predictors of increased opioid dosage in the last week of a terminal cancer patient's life. METHODS:We retrospectively reviewed charts of patients who died in our palliative care unit. W...

journal_title：Japanese journal of clinical oncology

authors： Miura T,Matsumoto Y,Motonaga S,Hasuo H,Abe K,Kinoshita H

更新日期：2014-11-01 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：OBJECTIVE:The optimal management of elderly patients with limited-disease small cell lung cancer (LD-SCLC) has not been established. METHODS:The records of elderly (>or=70 years of age) patients with LD-SCLC who had been treated with etoposide and cisplatin chemotherapy with early concurrent twice-daily thoracic radio...

journal_title：Japanese journal of clinical oncology

authors： Okamoto K,Okamoto I,Takezawa K,Tachibana I,Fukuoka M,Nishimura Y,Nakagawa K

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

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：:We report a case of gefitinib-induced bilateral upper urinary tract bleeding in an 82-year-old woman administered the drug daily for advanced non-small cell adenocarcinoma of the lung (T4N3M0). Hematuria is an uncommon adverse effect of gefitinib, and in most cases, the bleeding site is unknown. On the 44th day of ora...

journal_title：Japanese journal of clinical oncology

authors： Mori H,Ohno Y,Ito F,Funaguchi N,Yanase K,Endo J,Nakano M,Bai La BL,Minatoguchi S

更新日期：2010-03-01 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：:Myoepithelioma is a rare neoplasm usually occurring in the salivary glands or the mammary glands but also, more rarely, in the thoracic cavity. The diagnosis of myoepithelioma is based on the presence of histological and immunohistochemical characteristics of myoepithelioma, but in unusual locations, the diagnosis is ...

journal_title：Japanese journal of clinical oncology

authors： Habu T,Soh J,Toji T,Shien K,Niman E,Namba K,Sato H,Yamamoto H,Sugimoto S,Yamane M,Toyooka S

更新日期：2018-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Primary cardiac angiosarcoma is a rare, diagnostically elusive disease with a poor prognosis. In this report, we describe the case of a 56-year-old woman with a right atrial angiosarcoma. The patient presented with impending cardiac tamponade caused by right atrial perforation, but was misdiagnosed as a ruptured aneur...

journal_title：Japanese journal of clinical oncology

authors： Yoshitake I,Hata M,Sezai A,Niino T,Unosawa S,Shimura K,Kasamaki Y,Minami K

更新日期：2009-09-01 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:In women, osteoporosis is a common chronic disease that induces spinal compression and femoral neck fractures, resulting in life-threatening complications. It is very important to identify risk factors in order to prevent this disorder. Bone destruction is a well-recognized complication in a variety of neopl...

journal_title：Japanese journal of clinical oncology

authors： Hung YC,Yeh LS,Chang WC,Lin CC,Kao CH

更新日期：2002-10-01 00:00:00