Gan to kagaku ryoho. Cancer & chemotherapy
Nov 1, 2015
BACKGROUND: It is considered difficult to perform laparoscopic surgery for colorectal cancer with T4b that is directly invades to adjacent organs. This retrospective study evaluated pT4b colorectal cancer in terms of the efficacy of laparoscopic surg...
Gan to kagaku ryoho. Cancer & chemotherapy
Nov 1, 2015
A 76-year-old man presented with many bullous lesions and erythema over his whole body in August 2014. Blood examination showed an elevation of the anti-BP180 antibody (658 U/mL) and a biopsied specimen of the skin lesions showed subepidermal bulla. ...
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 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...
Gan to kagaku ryoho. Cancer & chemotherapy
Nov 1, 2015
Here, we report the use of trans-arterial chemoembolization for primary lung cancer. The patient was a 56-year-old woman with refractory Stage Ⅳ non-small cell lung cancer who had been treated with repeated systemic chemotherapy. The primary lesion i...
Gan to kagaku ryoho. Cancer & chemotherapy
Nov 1, 2015
A 62-year-old man was diagnosed with gastric cancer and underwent distal gastrectomy, and D1+b lymph node dissection. He was diagnosed postoperatively with T1b (sm2) N0M0, StageⅠA gastric adenocarcinoma and did not receive any adjuvant chemotherapy a...
Gan to kagaku ryoho. Cancer & chemotherapy
Nov 1, 2015
BACKGROUND: By remarkable progress of chemotherapy for pancreatic cancer, we sometimes achieve resection of initially unresectable pancreatic cancer after chemotherapy. Otherwise, the safety and feasibility of radical pancreatic resection after chemo...
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...
Europace : European pacing, arrhythmias, and cardiac electrophysiology : journal of the working groups on cardiac pacing, arrhythmias, and cardiac cellular electrophysiology of the European Society of Cardiology
Oct 1, 2015
AIMS: We aimed to compare the efficacy and safety between non-vitamin K antagonist oral anticoagulants (NOACs) and warfarin in atrial fibrillation (AF) patients according to renal dysfunction.
Europace : European pacing, arrhythmias, and cardiac electrophysiology : journal of the working groups on cardiac pacing, arrhythmias, and cardiac cellular electrophysiology of the European Society of Cardiology
Oct 1, 2015
AIMS: Biventricular (BiV) pacing was superior to right ventricular apical (RVA) pacing at extended follow-up in the Pacing to Avoid Cardiac Enlargement (PACE) trial. Early pacing-induced systolic dyssynchrony (DYS) might be related to mid-term result...
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