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 patient was a 53-year-old man who complained of perianal pain. He had a 20-year history of an anal fistula. There was a 10 cm tumor with mucin-like discharge on the left side of the anus. His CEA level was high, at 7.3 ng/mL, and T2-weighted MRI ...
OBJECTIVE: Although the use of temozolomide in chemoradiotherapy is effective, the challenging clinical problem of pseudo progression has been raised in brain tumor treatment. This study aims to distinguish pseudo progression from true progression.
Gan to kagaku ryoho. Cancer & chemotherapy
Nov 1, 2015
We examined the treatment outcomes and survival rate of patients treated with salvage thoracoscopic esophagectomy after definitive chemoradiotherapy (dCRT). Twenty-seven patients who were indicated for salvage thoracoscopic esophagectomy after dCRT i...