Combined chemotherapy with carboplatin plus irinotecan showed favorable efficacy in a patient with relapsed small cell carcinoma of the prostate complicated with meningeal carcinomatosis.

abstract：:Sarcomas represent a rare and heterogeneous disease and the prognosis of patients remains poor, with a disease-free survival at 5 years of less than 10%. Only a few chemotherapeutic agents, such as doxorubicin and ifosfamide, have been identified to be active with response rates above 20%. The concept of angiostatic t...

journal_title：International journal of clinical oncology

authors： Kasper B,Ho AD,Egerer G

更新日期：2005-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Impact of R1 (microscopically margin-positive) resection on survival of patients with hepatoblastoma (HB) remains debatable. This study aimed to compare the long-term outcomes of R0 (microscopically margin-negative) and R1 resection for HB in children after hepatectomy. METHODS:We retrospectively reviewed f...

journal_title：International journal of clinical oncology

authors： Ren X,Li H,Diao M,Xu H,Li L

更新日期：2020-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Testicular cancer is a rare type of cancer in males. Since the disease is seen in young men and long-term survival is ensured following a high treatment success rate, fertility in testicular cancer patients is much more important. Prior to commencement of cancer treatment, patients are given counselling with...

journal_title：International journal of clinical oncology

authors： Uçar MA,Arikan F,Coşkun HŞ,Kondak Y,Tatlı AM,Göksu SS

更新日期：2020-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The two main malignant hepatic tumors in children are hepatoblastomas (HBLs) and hepatocellular carcinomas (HCCs). The past two decades have brought significant improvement to the outcomes of children diagnosed with malignant hepatic tumors, especially HBL, due to improvements in diagnosis and treatment. Histological ...

journal_title：International journal of clinical oncology

authors： Hiyama E

更新日期：2013-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The aim of this study was to investigate prognostic factors and develop a prognostic factor-based risk stratification model for disease-specific survival (DSS) in a radical cystectomy (RC) series. METHODS:The patient cohort comprised 194 consecutive patients with bladder cancer treated with RC. Univariate a...

journal_title：International journal of clinical oncology

authors： Gondo T,Nakashima J,Ozu C,Ohno Y,Horiguchi Y,Namiki K,Yoshioka K,Ohori M,Hatano T,Tachibana M

更新日期：2012-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:In this phase I/II study, we assessed the safety and initial efficacy of stereotactic body radiotherapy (SBRT) for lung tumors with real-time tumor tracking using CyberKnife based on the Monte Carlo algorithm. METHODS:Study subjects had histologically confirmed primary non-small-cell lung cancer staged as T...

journal_title：International journal of clinical oncology

authors： Iwata H,Ishikura S,Murai T,Iwabuchi M,Inoue M,Tatewaki K,Ohta S,Yokota N,Shibamoto Y

更新日期：2017-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Carboplatin has proven to be effective in the treatment of patients with recurrent ovarian cancer who have responded to platinum-based first-line chemotherapy. However, thrombocytopenia is a problem in heavily pretreated patients. Paclitaxel has a so-called platelet-sparing effect, but until now it was unknown whether...

journal_title：International journal of clinical oncology

authors： Ishikawa H,Fujiwara K,Suzuki S,Tanaka Y,Kohno I

更新日期：2002-10-01 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：:Complex carbohydrates are major components of the cell membrane and they play crucial roles in cell-cell and cell-extracellular matrix interactions, as well as in signal transduction. They consist of three kinds of molecular species; glycoproteins, proteoglycans, and glycosphingolipids. There is a distinct difference ...

journal_title：International journal of clinical oncology

authors： Ohyama C

更新日期：2008-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The purpose of this study was to assess the ability of fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography/computed tomography (FDG-PET/CT) to detect upper urinary tract urothelial carcinomas (UTUC) compared with pathological examination of tissues obtained by ureteroscopic biopsy and split cytologic analysis of...

journal_title：International journal of clinical oncology

authors： Asai S,Fukumoto T,Tanji N,Miura N,Miyagawa M,Nishimura K,Yanagihara Y,Shirato A,Miyauchi Y,Kikugawa T,Yokoyama M

更新日期：2015-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:We retrospectively evaluated the blood coagulation activity using the D-dimer level in the early period after gastrectomy and investigated whether postoperative hypercoagulation affects tumor recurrence and long-term survival in gastric cancer patients. METHODS:The study involved 650 patients who underwen...

journal_title：International journal of clinical oncology

authors： Hara K,Aoyama T,Hayashi T,Nakazono M,Nagasawa S,Shimoda Y,Kumazu Y,Numata M,Yamada T,Tamagawa H,Shiozawa M,Morinaga S,Yukawa N,Rino Y,Masuda M,Ogata T,Oshima T

更新日期：2020-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Opioids are key drugs for cancer pain relief, but some patients, especially those who have gastroenterological cancers, suffer from severe opioid-induced bowel dysfunction (OBD), which reduces their quality of life. In order to achieve better pain relief, efforts to minimize OBD are required. METHODS:Betwee...

journal_title：International journal of clinical oncology

authors： Matsui T,Kojima T,Kojima H,Iwamoto N,Kure S,Uemura T,Fujimitsu Y,Sakamoto J

更新日期：2009-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In Japan, the first actual survey of morbidity from cancer was conducted by Dr. Mitsuo Segi in Miyagi Prefecture from 1951 to 1953. Population-based cancer registries were started in 1957 in Hiroshima and 1958 in Nagasaki for the follow-up of survivors of the atomic bombings. Public population-based cancer registries,...

journal_title：International journal of clinical oncology

authors： Okamoto N

更新日期：2008-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Since the development of chemotherapy regimens for patients with retinoblastoma started in the 1950s, various agents and regimens have been employed for various kinds of patients. Chemotherapy has been employed for: (1) patients with high-risk features for metastases, such as patients with optic nerve involvement, (2)...

journal_title：International journal of clinical oncology

authors： Makimoto A

更新日期：2004-02-01 00:00:00

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：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:It is still controversial whether axillary lymph node (ALN) dissection (ALND) can be omitted after negative sentinel lymph node (SLN) biopsy (SLNB) in breast cancer (BC) patients with clinically positive ALNs at presentation treated with neoadjuvant chemotherapy (NAC). The study aim was to analyze whether SL...

journal_title：International journal of clinical oncology

authors： Takei H,Yoshida T,Kurosumi M,Inoue K,Matsumoto H,Hayashi Y,Higuchi T,Uchida S,Ninomiya J,Kubo K,Oba H,Nagai S,Tabei T

更新日期：2013-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report four patients with hepatocellular carcinoma (all men, with liver cirrhosis and hepatitis C virus infections) who showed spontaneous regression of the tumor. When the spontaneous regression occurred all of the patients were over age 67 years. They showed a rapid increase of serum alpha-fetoprotein levels just...

journal_title：International journal of clinical oncology

authors： Kondo S,Okusaka T,Ueno H,Ikeda M,Morizane C

更新日期：2006-10-01 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:This retrospective study was carried out to ascertain the extent of efficacy of nonsurgical salvage modalities, mainly chemotherapy (CT) alone or chemoradiotherapy (CTRT), for loco-regional failures in head and neck cancer (HNC). METHODS:Between 1991 and 1999, 131 patients with HNC, mostly stages III and IV...

journal_title：International journal of clinical oncology

authors： Datta NR,Nagar YS,Singh S,Naryan L

更新日期：2003-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:This study was conducted to determine the efficacy and safety of low-dose chemotherapy with methotrexate (MTX) and vinblastine (VBL) for patients with desmoid tumors refractory to meloxicam treatment, focusing in particular on the relationship between the efficacy of this chemotherapy and catenin β-1 (CTNNB1...

journal_title：International journal of clinical oncology

authors： Nishida Y,Tsukushi S,Urakawa H,Hamada S,Kozawa E,Ikuta K,Ando Y,Ishiguro N

更新日期：2015-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:In adjuvant settings of human epidermal growth factor receptor 2 (HER2)-positive breast cancer, anthracycline-based chemotherapy followed by taxane and trastuzumab is a standard regimen. Recent studies have reported the use of anthracycline-free adjuvant chemotherapy in selected HER2-positive breast cancer pati...

journal_title：International journal of clinical oncology

authors： Watanuki R,Hayashida T,Kawai Y,Kikuchi M,Nakashoji A,Yokoe T,Toyota T,Seki T,Takahashi M,Kitagawa Y

更新日期：2019-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Although several reports have discussed the potential of the indocyanine green (ICG) fluorescence technique, its effectiveness and limitations have not been fully evaluated. For the accurate detection of sentinel lymph node (SLN) in cutaneous melanoma, which can arise in a wide variety of sites throughout th...

journal_title：International journal of clinical oncology

authors： Namikawa K,Tsutsumida A,Tanaka R,Kato J,Yamazaki N

更新日期：2014-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Whether the administration of calcium (Ca) and magnesium (Mg) can reduce oxaliplatin-related neurotoxicity remains controversial. In addition, little is known about the effects of Ca/Mg on the blood level of platinum or objective tumor progression. PATIENTS AND METHODS:Patients receiving modified FOLFOX6 fo...

journal_title：International journal of clinical oncology

authors： Ishibashi K,Okada N,Miyazaki T,Sano M,Ishida H

更新日期：2010-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICIs)-such as antibodies to programmed cell death-1 (PD-1), to its ligand PD-L1, or to cytotoxic T lymphocyte-associated protein-4 (CTLA-4)-are an evolving treatment option for several types of cancer, but only a limited number of patients benefit from such therapy. Preclinical studies ha...

journal_title：International journal of clinical oncology

authors： Hayashi H,Nakagawa K

更新日期：2020-05-01 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：:We report the case of a 68-year-old Japanese man who presented with postrenal azotemia due to bilateral upper ureteral stenosis. The patient's right kidney was nonfunctional; therefore, right nephroureterectomy was performed for the purpose of pathologic diagnosis. Histopathologic examination revealed follicular lymph...

journal_title：International journal of clinical oncology

authors： Kubota Y,Kawai A,Tsuchiya T,Kozima K,Yokoi S,Deguchi T

更新日期：2007-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The role and the optimal measurement method of serum HER2 levels are not defined in patients with metastatic breast cancer (MBC). We prospectively assessed the prognostic value of serum HER2 levels in MBC using two methods, enzyme immunoassay (EIA) and chemiluminescence immunoassay (CLIA). METHODS:We collec...

journal_title：International journal of clinical oncology

authors： Hayashi N,Nakamura S,Tokuda Y,Yagata H,Yoshida A,Ota H,Hortobagyi GN,Cristofanilli M,Ueno NT

更新日期：2012-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Total pharyngolaryngectomy (TPL) is a conventional and standard surgical method for locoregional control of advanced hypopharyngeal cancer (HPC). This study aimed to define the clinicopathological prognostic factors of TPL by evaluating our surgical experience of TPL in the treatment of HPCs. METHODS:We ret...

journal_title：International journal of clinical oncology

authors： Omura G,Ando M,Saito Y,Kobayashi K,Yamasoba T,Asakage T

更新日期：2015-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Differences in individual body sizes have not been well considered when analyzing the survival of patients with non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC). We hypothesized that physique-adjusted tumor size is superior to actual tumor size in predicting the prognosis. METHODS:Eight hundred and forty-two patients who...

journal_title：International journal of clinical oncology

authors： Ozeki N,Fukui T,Kawaguchi K,Nakamura S,Hakiri S,Kato T,Hirakawa A,Yokoi K

更新日期：2018-04-01 00:00:00