MOTIVATION: One of the main challenges in machine learning (ML) is choosing an appropriate normalization method. Here, we examine the effect of various normalization methods on analyzing FPKM upper quartile (FPKM-UQ) RNA sequencing data sets. We coll...
Gan to kagaku ryoho. Cancer & chemotherapy
Dec 1, 2018
A 90-year-old male underwent total gastrectomy for gastric cancer 10 months earlier. The cancer was pathologically diagnosed as Stage ⅢA. Preoperative serum CA19-9 level was as high as 1,326 U/mL, but quickly decreased after surgery. Although the ser...
Gan to kagaku ryoho. Cancer & chemotherapy
Dec 1, 2018
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...
Gan to kagaku ryoho. Cancer & chemotherapy
Dec 1, 2018
We treateda 70-year-oldfemale patient with locally advancedrectal cancer accompaniedby metastases to other organs. Three courses of S-1 plus oxaliplatin(SOX)therapy were administered as neoadjuvant chemotherapy(NAC), andthe cancer was subsequently tr...
MOTIVATION: The convolutional neural network (CNN) has been applied to the classification problem of DNA sequences, with the additional purpose of motif discovery. The training of CNNs with distributed representations of four nucleotides has successf...
Gan to kagaku ryoho. Cancer & chemotherapy
Nov 1, 2017
A 38-year-old male presented to our hospital with complaint of vomiting. A CT demonstrated a mass sized 42mm in the pancreatic head invading to the duodenum and a liver mass sized 15mm in the medial segment. Biopsy revealed adenocarcinoma. Due to liv...
Gan to kagaku ryoho. Cancer & chemotherapy
Nov 1, 2017
A 67-year-old man was admitted to our hospital because of anemia and weight loss, and diagnosed with a type 3 tumor in the upper gastric body. Pathological examination suggested moderately differentiated adenocarcinoma with immunohistochemically nega...
OBJECTIVE: National examination of open proctectomy (OP), laparoscopic proctectomy (LP), and robotic proctectomy (RP) in pathological outcomes and overall survival (OS).
OBJECTIVE: The aim of this work was to report our experience in robotic-assisted laparoscopic radical prostatectomy for the treatment of localized prostate cancer in a kidney transplant recipient.
Adenocarcinomas of Vater's papilla (PVAC) may originate from either the pancreatic duct or the intestinal epithelium. Conflicting data have been reported about the frequency of the 2 anatomical entities and their influence on patients' prognosis. To ...
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