Gan to kagaku ryoho. Cancer & chemotherapy
Nov 1, 2016
A72 -year-old woman who complained of abdominal pain and distention visited the emergency clinic of our hospital in April 2014. Computed tomography(CT)showed an omental mass and a pelvic mass with massive ascites. The fluid was removed by abdominal a...
Gan to kagaku ryoho. Cancer & chemotherapy
Nov 1, 2016
A 52-year-old man was initially diagnosed with an unresectable acinar cell carcinoma of the pancreas with liver metastasis and involvement of the superior mesenteric artery. After 5 courses of systemic chemotherapy(gemcitabine and S-1), the size of t...
Gan to kagaku ryoho. Cancer & chemotherapy
Nov 1, 2016
The following is a case report of moderately differentiated tubular adenocarcinoma of the stomach with widespread thrombosis of the portal vein, for which chemotherapy proved effective. A 75-year-old man presented to the clinic with a new onset ofmal...
Gan to kagaku ryoho. Cancer & chemotherapy
Nov 1, 2016
A 70-year-old man underwent endoscopic submucosal dissection(ESD)for 2 early-stage gastric cancers in 2009 and 2014, respectively. Both were pathologically diagnosed after curative resection. In 2015, we detected swollen lymph nodes in the lesser cur...
Gan to kagaku ryoho. Cancer & chemotherapy
Nov 1, 2016
We report a case of a radical resection of cT3a gallbladder cancer after neoadjuvant chemotherapy(NAC). A 68-year-old man was referred to our hospital with a chief complaint of right hypochondralgia.Imaging findings were consistent with acute cholecy...
Gan to kagaku ryoho. Cancer & chemotherapy
Nov 1, 2016
In early breast cancer chemotherapy, it is important to maintain the relative dose intensity(RDI). We retrospectively ana- lyzed the incidence and risk factors of febrile neutropenia(FN)among women receiving FEC(5-fluorouracil 500mg/m2, epirubicin 10...
Gan to kagaku ryoho. Cancer & chemotherapy
Nov 1, 2015
This case involves a 76 year-old woman. A sigmoidectomy was performed for sigmoid colon cancer in August 2006. On histological examination, the cancer was shown to be tub2>tub1>por2, pSE, int, INF b, ly2, v0, pN0, p1 (Douglas), Stage Ⅳ. After surgery...
Gan to kagaku ryoho. Cancer & chemotherapy
Nov 1, 2015
The patient was a 76-year-old woman who underwent laparoscopic-assisted low anterior resection for rectal cancer. According to the Japanese classification of colorectal carcinoma (8th Edition), the tumor was tub1, ly0, v0, and pStage Ⅰ (pT1bN0M0), Cu...
Gan to kagaku ryoho. Cancer & chemotherapy
Nov 1, 2015
A 32-year-old man was admitted to our hospital with the complaint of epigastric pain. Gastrointestinal endoscopy revealed a type 5 advanced gastric cancer at the posterior wall of the antrum. Contrast-enhanced computed tomography (CT) and endoscopic ...
Gan to kagaku ryoho. Cancer & chemotherapy
Nov 1, 2015
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, followed by 8 courses of S-1. Three years and 8 months after the surgery, abdominal CT demonstrated ascites...
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