Immunotherapy for squamous cell carcinoma of the head and neck.

abstract：OBJECTIVE:The cell cycle profile test is suggested to be an independent prognostic indicator for breast cancer patients. To further clarify the prognostic value, we applied this to breast cancer patients treated with postoperative 5-fluorouracil-based chemotherapy. METHODS:A total of 153 breast cancer patients, who we...

journal_title：Japanese journal of clinical oncology

authors： Kurebayashi J,Kanomata N,Kozuka Y,Moriya T,Kikukawa N,Kawasaki Y,Harada S,Tamura S,Nakayama S,Ishihara H,Noguchi S,Sonoo H

更新日期：2011-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Radiation Therapy Study Group (RTSG) of the Japan Clinical Oncology Group (JCOG) was established in 2003. The missions of this group are to develop new standards of care with innovative, advanced technology radiation therapy, both for single- and multi-modality cancer treatment, and to improve radiation therapy qu...

journal_title：Japanese journal of clinical oncology

authors： Ishikura S,Ito Y,Hiraoka M

更新日期：2011-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To identify predictors of biochemical recurrence (BCR) after radical prostatectomy with or without standard pelvic lymphadenectomy in Korean men with high-risk prostate cancer. METHODS:The clinical and pathologic data of 199 patients with high-risk features were reviewed retrospectively. High-risk features w...

journal_title：Japanese journal of clinical oncology

authors： Ku JH,Jeong CW,Park YH,Cho MC,Kwak C,Kim HH

更新日期：2011-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A review of the present status of adjuvant chemotherapy for gastric cancer in Japan has been made. The single use of mitomycin C (MMC) after curative gastrectomy, a multidrug combination of MMC, 5-fluorouracil (5FU) and cytosine arabinoside (CA) (MFC therapy), and a combination of inductive MFC followed by maintenance...

journal_title：Japanese journal of clinical oncology

authors： Nakajima T

更新日期：1990-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：Background:Many patients with colorectal cancer are elderly with competing comorbidities. When constructing nomogram for assessing survival, we should consider the influence of competing risk. A competing-risks nomogram was developed to estimate the probability of death due to colorectal cancer for patients after curat...

journal_title：Japanese journal of clinical oncology

authors： Li J,Li X,Gu J,Ma X,Xue F

更新日期：2018-12-01 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：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：OBJECTIVE:Nasopharyngeal carcinoma is one of the leading malignancies with obscure etiology. Circulating tumor cells have been showed to intimately correlate with characteristics in different kinds of cancer. But links between circulating tumor cells and nasopharyngeal carcinoma were still lacking. Therefore, we explor...

journal_title：Japanese journal of clinical oncology

authors： Si Y,Lan G,Deng Z,Wang Y,Lu Y,Qin Y,Huang B,Yang Y,Weng J,Han X,Zhang B,Qin Y,Xiong W,Li B,Wu S

更新日期：2016-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Although cigarette smoking is considered as an important risk factor for esophageal cancer, the magnitude of the association might be varied among geographic areas. Therefore, we reviewed epidemiologic studies on the association between cigarette smoking and esophageal cancer among the Japanese population. M...

journal_title：Japanese journal of clinical oncology

authors： Oze I,Matsuo K,Ito H,Wakai K,Nagata C,Mizoue T,Tanaka K,Tsuji I,Tamakoshi A,Sasazuki S,Inoue M,Tsugane S,Research Group for the Development and Evaluation of Cancer Prevention Strategies in Japan.

更新日期：2012-01-01 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：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:To investigate the regulative effect of microRNA-338-3p on colorectal carcinoma cell invasion and migration. METHODS:The microRNA-338-3p expression pattern of colorectal carcinoma tissues and cell lines was detected by real-time reverse transcriptase polymerase chain reaction. The protein level of smoothened...

journal_title：Japanese journal of clinical oncology

authors： Xue Q,Sun K,Deng HJ,Lei ST,Dong JQ,Li GX

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In seeking to understand how life-threatening illness affects children psychologically, projective testing may be beneficial, particularly when attempting to identify psychological problems in younger adolescents. The advantages of projective testing are that it does not depend on patients' verbal ability and is not i...

journal_title：Japanese journal of clinical oncology

authors： Hatano Y,Yamada M,Nakagawa K,Nanri H,Kawase M,Fukui K

更新日期：2014-10-01 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：BACKGROUND:Tumor marker-producing germ cell tumors of the central nervous system are malignant and require radiation and/or chemotherapy. Although serum beta-human chorionic gonadotropin (hCG) has been used to monitor the course of treatment, the levels of beta-hCG in the cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) have not been measure...

journal_title：Japanese journal of clinical oncology

authors： Fujimaki T,Mishima K,Asai A,Tabuchi K,Kobayashi M,Suzuki I,Kirino T

更新日期：2000-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:We aimed to clarify the suitable surgical management around the paratracheal area of patients who undergo total pharyngolaryngectomy based on the pathological results of hypopharyngeal cancer. METHODS:The study was conducted under a multicenter, retrospective observational design in Japan. We analyzed histop...

journal_title：Japanese journal of clinical oncology

authors： Tomioka T,Beppu T,Fujii T,Ozawa T,Asakage T,Onitsuka T,Fujimoto Y,Matsuura K,Kawabata K,Hayashi R

更新日期：2019-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A randomized Phase II/III trial commenced in Japan in December 2013. Carboplatin plus etoposide is the current standard treatment for elderly extensive-disease small-cell lung cancer. The purpose of this study is to confirm the superiority of carboplatin plus irinotecan in terms of overall survival over carboplatin pl...

journal_title：Japanese journal of clinical oncology

authors： Eba J,Shimokawa T,Nakamura K,Shibata T,Misumi Y,Okamoto H,Yamamoto N,Ohe Y,Lung Cancer Study Group of the Japan Clinical Oncology Group.

更新日期：2015-01-01 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：:Trousseau's syndrome (cancer-associated thrombosis) is the second leading cause of death in cancer patients, after death from cancer itself. The risk of a venous thromboembolism is 4- to 7-fold higher in patients with cancer than in those without cancer. The causes of this impaired coagulation are associated with gene...

journal_title：Japanese journal of clinical oncology

authors： Ikushima S,Ono R,Fukuda K,Sakayori M,Awano N,Kondo K

更新日期：2016-03-01 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：: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：OBJECTIVE:Anatomical segmentectomy has the potential to replace lobectomy as the standard procedure for early stage non-small cell lung cancer. We investigated the safety and feasibility of robotic anatomical segmentectomy for non-small cell lung cancer. METHODS:Overall 20 patients underwent robotic anatomical segment...

journal_title：Japanese journal of clinical oncology

authors： Kagimoto A,Tsutani Y,Izaki Y,Handa Y,Mimae T,Miyata Y,Okada M

更新日期：2020-04-07 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：: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：:Primary mesenteric liposarcoma is a rare entity that has been reported only 14 times in English literature. The treatment strategy for mesenteric liposarcoma is, if no distant metastases are detected, surgical resection with a wide surgical margin, often followed by radiation and/or adjuvant chemotherapy for high-risk...

journal_title：Japanese journal of clinical oncology

authors： Ishiguro S,Yamamoto S,Chuman H,Moriya Y

更新日期：2006-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Hepatocellular cancer (HCC) is one of the important health problems in Turkey. We aimed to determine the clinical and demographic features of HCC in the Turkish population and to evaluate the prognostic and survival features. METHOD:Two hundred and twenty-one patients with HCC from five hospitals in Turkey a...

journal_title：Japanese journal of clinical oncology

authors： Alacacioglu A,Somali I,Simsek I,Astarcioglu I,Ozkan M,Camci C,Alkis N,Karaoglu A,Tarhan O,Unek T,Yilmaz U

更新日期：2008-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To determine the antitumor activity and toxicity of weekly hepatic arterial infusion (HAI) of 5-fluorouracil (5-FU) for liver metastases from colorectal cancer. In addition, the present study also evaluated the efficacy of second-line chemotherapy after termination of HAI. METHODS:A retrospective study was d...

journal_title：Japanese journal of clinical oncology

authors： Hosokawa A,Yamada Y,Shimada Y,Muro K,Matsumura Y,Fujita S,Akasu T,Moriya Y,Shirao K

更新日期：2003-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Uracil-tegafur (UFT) has been reported to have broad antitumor activity in a variety of malignancies. However, its activity in biliary tract carcinoma has not been fully evaluated. The aim of this study was to evaluate the antitumor activity and toxicity of UFT in chemotherapy-naive patients with advanced bi...

journal_title：Japanese journal of clinical oncology

authors： Ikeda M,Okusaka T,Ueno H,Morizane C,Furuse J,Ishii H

更新日期：2005-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The Patterns of Care Study (USPCS) by the American College of Radiology (ACR) has made significant contributions to improvements in the procedures of care for patients with breast cancer in the USA. The purpose of this study was to identify problems associated with the process of care for patients undergoing...

journal_title：Japanese journal of clinical oncology

authors： Shikama N,Nishikawa A,Mitsumori M,Hiraoka M,Yamamoto T,Teshima T,Inoue T,Wilson F,Owen J

更新日期：2003-10-01 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