Gan to kagaku ryoho. Cancer & chemotherapy
Dec 1, 2018
The patient was a 63-year-old man with hepatitis C. He discontinued combination therapy containing interferon and ribavirin because of the development of skin symptoms. A screening examination showed multiple early-stage hepatocellular carcinomas. He...
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 report a case of pathologicallycomplete response in ruptured hepatocellular carcinoma(HCC)treated with transcatheter arterial embolization(TAE). A 56-year-old man presented to our hospital with a hepatic tumor. Enhanced computed tomography(CT)reve...
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: 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: 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...
PURPOSE: A major adverse effect arising from nimustine hydrochloride (ACNU) therapy for brain tumors is myelosuppression. Because its timing and severity vary among individual patients, the ACNU dose level has been adjusted in an empiric manner at in...
PURPOSE: To compare the accuracy and reliability of a natural language processing (NLP) algorithm with manual coding by radiologists, and the combination of the two methods, for the identification of patients whose computed tomography (CT) reports ra...
Biomedical and environmental sciences : BES
Dec 1, 2018
OBJECTIVE: The predictive value of N-terminal pro-brain natriuretic peptide (NT-proBNP) in patients with stable coronary artery disease (SCAD) in the drug-eluting stent era is not yet clear. We aimed to evaluate the prognostic value of NT-proBNP in S...
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