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...
INTRODUCTION: Smoking is the leading cause of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and cotinine is reliable marker of tobacco exposure. We aimed to investigate the relationship between pulmonary function tests (FVC%, FEV1, FEV1/FVC and FEF25-...
INTRODUCTION: YKL-40 is a glycoprotein that plays role in inflammation and malignant processes. High serum YKL-40 levels are associated with short survive in cancer and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is another reason to increase its' l...
PURPOSE: Surgical excision is currently recommended for all occurrences of atypical ductal hyperplasia (ADH) found on core needle biopsies for malignancy diagnoses and treatment of lesions. The excision of all ADH lesions may lead to overtreatment, w...
PURPOSE: Clear and trustworthy information is essential for people who are ill. People with cancer, in particular, are targeted with vast quantities of patient education material, but of variable quality. Machine learning technologies are popular acr...
PURPOSE: The majority of patients with cancer receive treatments that are minimally informed by omics data. We propose a precision medicine computational framework, PANOPLY (Precision Cancer Genomic Report: Single Sample Inventory), to identify and p...
PURPOSE: Prognostic models for diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL), such as the International Prognostic Index (IPI) are widely used in clinical practice. The models are typically developed with simplicity in mind and thus do not exploit the full p...
PURPOSE: Patients undergoing radiotherapy (RT) or chemoradiotherapy (CRT) may require emergency department evaluation or hospitalization. Early identification may direct preventative supportive care, improving outcomes and reducing health care costs....
PURPOSE: To our knowledge, integration of Web content mining of publicly available addresses with a geographic information system (GIS) has not been applied to the timely monitoring of medical technology adoption. Here, we explore the diffusion of a ...
PURPOSE: With rapidly evolving treatment options in cancer, the complexity in the clinical decision-making process for oncologists represents a growing challenge magnified by oncologists' disposition of intuition-based assessment of treatment risks a...
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