Ovarian Cancer

[A Surgical Case of AFP-Producing Gastric Cancer Discovered by Rupture of Liver Metastatic Lesion].

A 57-year-old man visited our hospital with right hypochondralgia. Abdominal contrast CT showed a 10 cm sized mass in S6-7of the liver and abdominal hemorrhage areas. The tumor showed extrahepatic growth. Blood a-fetoprotein(AFP)was high at 4,447.9ng/mL. Hemostasis was performed through emergency transcatheter arterial embolization. At a later date, upper gastrointestinal endoscopy showed a 20 mm ...

Feature specific quantile normalization enables cross-platform classification of molecular subtypes using gene expression data.

MOTIVATION: Molecular subtypes of cancers and autoimmune disease, defined by transcriptomic profiling, have provided insight into disease pathogenesis, molecular heterogeneity and therapeutic responses. However, technical biases inherent to different gene expression profiling platforms present a unique problem when analyzing data generated from different studies. Currently, there is a lack of effe...

Feasibility study of stain-free classification of cell apoptosis based on diffraction imaging flow cytometry and supervised machine learning techniques.

This study was to explore the feasibility of prediction and classification of cells in different stages of apoptosis with a stain-free method based on...

[Cell-Free and Concentrated Ascites Reinfusion Therapy for Malignant Intractable Ascites from Colorectal Cancer].

Malignant intractable ascites worsens not only patient symptoms but also their daily activities. It often leads to a patient discontinuing or postponi...

Successful treatment with afatinib for pancreatic metastasis of lung adenocarcinoma: a case report.

Metastatic lung cancer of the pancreas is rare and optimal treatment protocols have not been determined. An asymptomatic 53-year-old man with primary ...

[A Case of Eosinophilic Enteritis Needed to Distinguish from a Tumor of the Small Intestine].

A 75-year-old woman was diagnosed with aplastic anemia 6 months ago and was under follow-up at our hospital. She had originallypresented to our hospit...

[Successful Multidisciplinary Treatment of Metastatic Ovarian Cancer after Perforative Peritonitis of the Rectum Due to Disseminated Ovarian Cancer].

A72 -year-old woman who complained of abdominal pain and distention visited the emergency clinic of our hospital in April 2014. Computed tomography(CT...

The effectiveness of argumentation in tutorial dialogues with an Intelligent Tutoring System for genetic risk of breast cancer.

BRCA Gist is an Intelligent Tutoring System that helps women understand issues related to genetic testing and breast cancer risk. In two laboratory ex...

A chemotherapy response classifier based on support vector machines for high-grade serous ovarian carcinoma.

Long-term outcome of high-grade serous epithelial ovarian carcinoma (HGSOC) remains poor as a result of recurrence and the emergence of drug resistanc...

Preparation of Diaminedicarboxyplatinum (II) Functionalized Single-Wall Carbon Nanotube via Bingel Reaction as a Novel Cytotoxic Agent.

Carbon nanotubes have unique properties like high stability, high surface to mass ratio and so on which make them suitable for medicinal purpose appli...

[A Case of Advanced Gastric Cancer with Peritoneal Dissemination Effectively Treated with S-1 and Docetaxel Combination Chemotherapy].

A 72-year-old man underwent surgery for advanced gastric cancer. Systemic chemotherapy was started, using a regimen of S-1/CDDP for 4 courses, followe...

[Reliability and validity of the FACIT-AI Chinese-version for assessing quality of life in patients with malignant ascites].