Loco-regional failures in head and neck cancer: can they be effectively salvaged by nonsurgical therapeutic modalities?

abstract：BACKGROUND:Worldwide studies on lung adenocarcinoma have demonstrated a genetic divergence of the epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) pathway according to ethnicity, such as higher frequency of activated EGFR mutations among East Asian patients. However, such information is still lacking in some developing countrie...

journal_title：International journal of clinical oncology

authors： Rahman S,Kondo N,Yoneda K,Takuwa T,Hashimoto M,Orui H,Okumura Y,Tanaka F,Kumamoto K,Mostafa MG,Chowdhury GM,Haque A,Hasegawa S

更新日期：2014-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:To avoid the loss of fertility, chemotherapy should be chosen as an adjuvant treatment after trachelectomy. Our study evaluated the effectiveness and safety of adjuvant chemotherapy after abdominal trachelectomy for cervical cancer. METHODS:Our institutional review board approved this clinical study, and in...

journal_title：International journal of clinical oncology

authors： Okugawa K,Yahata H,Sonoda K,Kodama K,Yagi H,Ohgami T,Yasunaga M,Onoyama I,Kaneki E,Asanoma K,Kobayashi H,Kato K

更新日期：2021-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Soft-tissue tumors are often accompanied by abnormal temperature distribution detected during palpation. However, the assessment of temperature distribution is subjective, limiting its wide use in cancer screening. The aim of this study was to evaluate the clinical significance of the thermal detection of so...

journal_title：International journal of clinical oncology

authors： Shimatani A,Hoshi M,Oebisu N,Iwai T,Takada N,Nakamura H

更新日期：2020-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Although the Onodera's prognosis nutritional index (O-PNI) has been used to predict long-term life expectancy, its use to predict life expectancy within 12 weeks has not been discussed. In this study, we examined the usefulness of the O-PNI to predict short-term life expectancy in patients with end-stage gas...

journal_title：International journal of clinical oncology

authors： Oyama K,Oba M,Oshima Y,Shimada H

更新日期：2021-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Sternal resection is occasionally required for patients with malignant tumors, particularly sarcomas, in the sternal region. Few reports have described post-operative respiratory and shoulder function after sternal resection for patients with bone and soft-tissue sarcomas. METHODS:Eight consecutive patients...

journal_title：International journal of clinical oncology

authors： Nishida Y,Tsukushi S,Urakawa H,Toriyama K,Kamei Y,Yokoi K,Ishiguro N

更新日期：2015-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Resection of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is potentially curative; however, recurrence is common. To date, few or no effective adjuvant therapies have been adequately investigated. This study evaluates the efficacy of adjuvant iodine-131-lipiodol after hepatic resection through the experience of a single-c...

journal_title：International journal of clinical oncology

authors： Chua TC,Saxena A,Chu F,Butler SP,Quinn RJ,Glenn D,Morris DL

更新日期：2011-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:We conducted a study to validate the influence of the systemic immune-inflammation index (SII) on overall survival (OS) in patients with metastatic renal cell carcinoma (mRCC) and to verify whether the implementation of the SII in place of neutrophil and platelet counts within the International Metastatic Re...

journal_title：International journal of clinical oncology

authors： Chrom P,Zolnierek J,Bodnar L,Stec R,Szczylik C

更新日期：2019-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Recent studies have shown that immune-related adverse events (irAEs) caused by immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICIs) were correlated with favorable clinical outcome in patients with melanoma. However, in metastatic renal cell carcinoma (mRCC) patients, there have been few reports about the correlation between ...

journal_title：International journal of clinical oncology

authors： Kato T,Nagahara A,Kawamura N,Nakata W,Soda T,Matsuzaki K,Hatano K,Kawashima A,Ujike T,Imamura R,Nishimura K,Takada S,Tsujihata M,Yamaguchi S,Takao T,Nishimura K,Nonomura N,Uemura M

更新日期：2021-01-20 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Recent studies have shown the benefits of neoadjuvant therapy with chemotherapy or chemoradiotherapy for resectable locally advanced thoracic esophageal squamous cell carcinoma (ESCC). The aim of our study was to elucidate the use of neoadjuvant therapy for thoracic ESCC in Japan. METHODS:Data on patients w...

journal_title：International journal of clinical oncology

authors： Tsukada Y,Higashi T,Shimada H,Kikuchi Y,Terahara A

更新日期：2018-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A primary retroperitoneal mucinous cystadenocarcinoma (PRMC) is an extremely rare lesion. To date, only 49 cases have been reported. The presence of mural nodules in a PRMC may indicate a worse prognosis. We report the case of a 40-year-old Japanese woman with a PRMC with mural nodules. Microscopic examination reveale...

journal_title：International journal of clinical oncology

authors： Kanayama T,Yoshino K,Enomoto T,Ohashi H,Fujita M,Ueda Y,Kimura T,Kobayashi E,Morii E,Kimura T

更新日期：2012-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The mechanisms underlying cognitive decline after radiotherapy not directed at brain areas remains unclear. We previously suggested that adjuvant breast radiotherapy in breast conservation therapy could lower memory function soon after therapy, and that the process might be partially mediated by plasma inter...

journal_title：International journal of clinical oncology

authors： Shibayama O,Yoshiuchi K,Inagaki M,Matsuoka Y,Yoshikawa E,Sugawara Y,Akechi T,Wada N,Imoto S,Murakami K,Ogawa A,Uchitomi Y

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:High-risk factors for recurrence of head and neck squamous cell carcinoma after surgical resection include involvement of ≥ 2 regional lymph nodes, extracapsular spread, and microscopic involvement of resected mucosal margins. Adjuvant chemoradiotherapy is thought to improve postoperative locoregional contro...

journal_title：International journal of clinical oncology

authors： Yokota T,Onitsuka T,Kusafuka K,Ogawa H,Onozawa Y,Nakagawa M,Iida Y,Kamijo T,Nishimura T,Nakajima T,Boku N,Yasui H

更新日期：2014-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 76-year old woman presented with a large inguino-crural mass, multiple abdominal lymphoadenopathies, and neurological signs of spinal cord compression, first diagnosed as large-cell non-Hodgkin lymphoma. At subsequent clinical workup, a diagnosis of granulocytic sarcoma with meningeal involvement was made. Unfortuna...

journal_title：International journal of clinical oncology

authors： Balleari E,Panarello S,Capello E,Grosso M,Passalia C,Pitto P,Raggi F,Roccatagliata L,Cabiddu F,Ghio R

更新日期：2007-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:To evaluate the survival benefit of gemcitabine and paclitaxel (GT) chemotherapy for patients with metastatic urothelial cancer (UC), a retrospective analysis was performed to compare the overall survival in two periods: before (group I) and after (group II) the introduction of GT chemotherapy. PATIENTS AND...

journal_title：International journal of clinical oncology

authors： Matsui Y,Nishiyama H,Yoshimura K,Xing ND,Sumiyoshi T,Saito R,Inoue T,Kamba T,Ogawa O

更新日期：2013-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Primary sarcoma of the fallopian tube is a very rare neoplasm. We report the case of a 69-year-old woman affected with leiomyosarcoma of the left fallopian tube. Her chief complaint was lower abdominal pain. The preoperative diagnosis was a left adnexal malignant tumor based on pelvic examination, abdominal computed t...

journal_title：International journal of clinical oncology

authors： Ueda T,Emoto M,Fukuoka M,Miyahara D,Horiuchi S,Tsujioka H,Kawarabayashi T

更新日期：2010-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Plasmacytoma is a blood disease featuring the proliferation of abnormal plasmacytes accompanied by the production of monoclonal immunoglobulins. It usually arises in the medulla; thus, extramedullary plasmacytoma is rare, and metastatic testicular tumors are also infrequent. In this report, we present a case of testic...

journal_title：International journal of clinical oncology

authors： Kamisawa H,Akita H,Naiki T,Kato T,Okamura T

更新日期：2008-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:The purpose of this study was to determine if quantitative SUV-related, volumetric FDG PET parameters, and texture features (SPs, VPs, and TFs, respectively) were useful to evaluate and predict response and recurrence after chemotherapy in follicular lymphoma (FL). METHODS:Pre- and posttreatment FDG PET examin...

journal_title：International journal of clinical oncology

authors： Tatsumi M,Isohashi K,Matsunaga K,Watabe T,Kato H,Kanakura Y,Hatazawa J

更新日期：2019-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:We retrospectively compared the efficacy of intensity-modulated radiotherapy (IMRT) and cetuximab (IMRT/cetuximab) versus IMRT and platinum-based chemotherapy (IMRT/platinum) for locally advanced head neck squamous cell carcinoma (LAHNSCC). METHODS:Thirty-one IMRT/cetuximab patients were matched 1:2 with 62 IM...

journal_title：International journal of clinical oncology

authors： Huang J,Baschnagel AM,Chen P,Gustafson G,Jaiyesmi I,Folbe M,Ye H,Akervall J,Krauss D

更新日期：2014-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:To fill the data gap between clinical trials and real-world settings, this study assessed the overall effectiveness and safety of nivolumab in patients with head and neck cancer (HNC) during Japanese real-world clinical practice. METHODS:This was a multicenter, retrospective study in Japanese patients with ...

journal_title：International journal of clinical oncology

authors： Hanai N,Shimizu Y,Kariya S,Yasumatsu R,Yokota T,Fujii T,Tsukahara K,Yoshida M,Hanyu K,Ueda T,Hirakawa H,Takahashi S,Ono T,Sano D,Yamauchi M,Watanabe A,Omori K,Yamazaki T,Monden N,Kudo N,Arai M,Sakurai D,Asakag

更新日期：2020-11-21 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:To investigate the prognostic and therapeutic implications of time to biochemical relapse (BCR) in patients with prostate cancer after radical prostatectomy. METHODS:The records of 3210 consecutive men with prostate cancer who underwent radical prostatectomy between January 1998 and June 2013 were retrospec...

journal_title：International journal of clinical oncology

authors： Pak S,You D,Jeong IG,Kim YS,Hong JH,Kim CS,Ahn H

更新日期：2019-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The CpG island methylator phenotype (CIMP) with multiple promoter methylated loci has been observed in a subset of human colorectal cancer (CRC) cases. CIMP status, which is closely associated with specific clinicopathological and molecular characteristics, is considered a potential predictive biomarker for ...

journal_title：International journal of clinical oncology

authors： Zhang X,Shimodaira H,Soeda H,Komine K,Takahashi H,Ouchi K,Inoue M,Takahashi M,Takahashi S,Ishioka C

更新日期：2016-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:The aim of the present study was to evaluate whether serum alpha-fetoprotein (AFP) and des-gamma-carboxy prothrombin (DCP) trends might be correlated with overall survival rates in patients with recurrent hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) undergoing trans-catheter arterial chemo-embolization (TACE). METHODS:We pe...

journal_title：International journal of clinical oncology

authors： Arai T,Kobayashi A,Ohya A,Takahashi M,Yokoyama T,Shimizu A,Motoyama H,Furusawa N,Notake T,Kitagawa N,Sakai H,Imamura H,Kadoya M,Miyagawa S

更新日期：2014-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Alternative anti-androgen therapy (AAT) with flutamide after combined androgen blockade (CAB) therapy with bicalutamide for metastatic prostate cancer is common. However, no studies have compared enzalutamide without AAT with enzalutamide after AAT with flutamide as treatment for castration-resistant prostat...

journal_title：International journal of clinical oncology

authors： Iguchi T,Tamada S,Kato M,Yasuda S,Otoshi T,Hamada K,Yamasaki T,Nakatani T

更新日期：2019-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:We aimed to determine the appropriateness of adding 18F-fluorodeoxyglucose (FDG)-positronemission tomography (PET) to computed tomography (CT) and other pre-existing diagnostic imaging modalities for detecting subclinical lymph node metastasis of esophageal cancer, by comparing images from these modalities w...

journal_title：International journal of clinical oncology

authors： Shimizu S,Hosokawa M,Itoh K,Fujita M,Takahashi H,Shirato H

更新日期：2009-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Intensity-modulated radiotherapy (IMRT) can deliver different doses to two target volumes with high conformity. The purpose of the present study was to compare outcomes provided by two different optimization methods, overlapping structure-based and non-overlapping structure-based methods, for simultaneous in...

journal_title：International journal of clinical oncology

authors： Suzuki M,Nakamatsu K,Kanamori S,Okajima K,Okumura M,Nishimura Y

更新日期：2004-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:It is often difficult to diagnose large cell neuroendocrine carcinomas (LCNEC) of the lung using small biopsy specimens. Some recent studies attempted to diagnose LCNEC using biopsy specimens; in 2011, the International Association for the Study of Lung Cancer pathological panels suggested possible LCNEC as ...

journal_title：International journal of clinical oncology

authors： Tokito T,Kenmotsu H,Watanabe R,Ito I,Shukuya T,Ono A,Nakamura Y,Tsuya A,Naito T,Murakami H,Takahashi T,Ohde Y,Kondo H,Endo M,Kameya T,Nakajima T,Mori K,Yamamoto N

更新日期：2014-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The efficacy of carbon-ion radiotherapy (C-ion RT) for lymph node (LN) oligo-recurrence has only been evaluated in limited single-center studies. We aimed to investigate the benefit of C-ion RT for LN oligo-recurrence in a large multi-center study. METHODS:Patients who received C-ion RT between December 199...

journal_title：International journal of clinical oncology

authors： Okonogi N,Kaminuma T,Okimoto T,Shinoto M,Yamamoto N,Yamada S,Murata K,Ohno T,Shioyama Y,Tsuji H,Nakano T,Kamada T

更新日期：2019-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Although regorafenib or trifluridine/tipiracil (FTD/TPI) has been recognized as a later-line standard treatment in patients with metastatic colorectal cancer (mCRC), not all patients have beneficial outcomes. This study aimed to develop a prognostic scoring system for evaluating the overall survival (OS) ben...

journal_title：International journal of clinical oncology

authors： Moriwaki T,Fukuoka S,Masuishi T,Takashima A,Kumekawa Y,Kajiwara T,Yamazaki K,Esaki T,Makiyama A,Denda T,Hatachi Y,Suto T,Sugimoto N,Enomoto M,Ishikawa T,Kashiwada T,Oki E,Komatsu Y,Tsuji A,Tsuchihashi K,Sakai D,

更新日期：2020-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Diagnosis of secondary ovarian tumors originating from colorectal cancer has previously been based upon history of malignancy and radiological findings of bilateral masses with a "stained glass appearance." The purpose of this study was to perform a detailed investigation of the radiological and macroscopic ...

journal_title：International journal of clinical oncology

authors： Kato MK,Shida D,Yoneoka Y,Yoshida H,Miyasaka N,Kanemitsu Y,Kato T

更新日期：2020-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 32-year-old Japanese woman was diagnosed as having stage Ib1 adenocarcinoma by diagnostic laser conization at a local hospital. She was admitted to our hospital for fertility-sparing treatment. A radical trachelectomy (RT) was performed using the laparoscopic vaginal procedure. The procedure was started with a lapar...

journal_title：International journal of clinical oncology

authors： Ishioka S,Endo T,Hayashi T,Kitajima Y,Sugimura M,Sagae S,Saito T

更新日期：2006-04-01 00:00:00