Issue 6/2011
Content (31 Articles)
Serum human telomerase reverse transcriptase: a novel biomarker for breast cancer diagnosis
Mahendar Porika, Radhika Tippani, Sekhar R. Bollam, Sree Divya Panuganti, Christopher Thamidala, Sadanandam Abbagani
Surrogacy of tumor response and progression-free survival for overall survival in metastatic breast cancer resistant to both anthracyclines and taxanes
Yoshihiro Matsubara, Satomi Sakabayashi, Tsutomu Nishimura, Takanori Ishida, Noriaki Ohuchi, Satoshi Teramukai, Masanori Fukushima
Clinical efficacy of primary combined androgen blockade for Japanese men with clinically localized prostate cancer unsuitable for local definitive treatment: a single institution experience
Minoru Kobayashi, Akinori Nukui, Kazumi Suzuki, Shinsuke Kurokawa, Tatsuo Morita
A 4-week versus a 3-week schedule of gemcitabine monotherapy for advanced pancreatic cancer: a randomized phase II study to evaluate toxicity and dose intensity
Ken Hirao, Hirofumi Kawamoto, Ichiro Sakakihara, Yasuhiro Noma, Naoki Yamamoto, Ryo Harada, Koichiro Tsutsumi, Masakuni Fujii, Hironari Kato, Naoko Kurihara, Osamu Mizuno, Tsuneyoshi Ogawa, Etsuji Ishida, Kazuhide Yamamoto
The prevalence of human papillomavirus in oral premalignant lesions and squamous cell carcinoma in comparison to cervical lesions used as a positive control
Miki Ishibashi, Mitsunobu Kishino, Sunao Sato, Eiichi Morii, Yuzo Ogawa, Katsuyuki Aozasa, Mikihiko Kogo, Satoru Toyosawa
Anatomical study of the external carotid artery and its branches for administration of superselective intra-arterial chemotherapy via the superficial temporal artery
Kazumichi Yonenaga, Iwai Tohnai, Kenji Mitsudo, Yoshiyuki Mori, Hideto Saijo, Toshinori Iwai, Yoshiyuki Yonehara, Yoshihide Ota, Kojun Torigoe, Tsuyoshi Takato
Pulmonary metastasectomy in patients with renal cell carcinoma: a single-institution experience
Atsunari Kawashima, Masashi Nakayama, Daizo Oka, Mototaka Sato, Koji Hatano, Masatoshi Mukai, Akira Nagahara, Yasutomo Nakai, Hitoshi Takayama, Masayoshi Inoue, Hiroyuki Shiono, Kazuo Nishimura, Meinoshin Okumura, Norio Nonomura
A prospective clinical trial of lenalidomide with topotecan in women with advanced epithelial ovarian carcinoma
Jori S. Carter, Levi S. Downs Jr.
Histone deacetylase inhibitor augments anti-tumor effect of gemcitabine and pegylated interferon-α on pancreatic cancer cells
Shuichi Iwahashi, Mitsuo Shimada, Tohru Utsunomiya, Yuji Morine, Satoru Imura, Tetsuya Ikemoto, Hiroki Mori, Jun Hanaoka, Koji Sugimoto, Yu Saito
The relationship between EGFR gain and VHL loss in lung adenocarcinoma and poor patient survival
Yushi Zhao, Ye Li, Shengfa Wang, Hongguang Lu, Jianxin Chen, Zhijie Zhang, Yubin Jin, Zhong-Zheng Zhu
Clinical utility and prospective comparison of ultrasonography and computed tomography imaging in staging of neck metastases in head and neck squamous cell cancer in an Indian setup
Mohammad Ashraf, Jaydip Biswas, Jayesh Jha, Sandeep Nayak, Vikas Singh, Suparna Majumdar, Anup Bhowmick, Aniruddha Dam
Time to first tumor progression as a predictor of efficacy of continued treatment with trastuzumab beyond progression in human epidermal growth factor receptor 2-positive metastatic breast cancer
Mitsuhiro Hayashi, Yasuhiro Okumura, Tomofumi Osako, Yasuo Toyozumi, Nobuyuki Arima, Hirotaka Iwase, Reiki Nishimura
Cotyledonoid dissecting leiomyoma of the uterus with intravascular growth in postmenopausal woman: a case presentation
Kazim Gezginç, Fatma Yazici, Refika Selimoğlu, Lema Tavli
Retiform Sertoli–Leydig cell tumor of ovary in a 9-year-old girl: case report and review of the literature
Weizhen Lou, Dongyan Cao, Jiaxin Yang, Lina Guo, Keng Shen
Primary squamous cell carcinoma associated with ovarian endometriosis: a case report and literature review
Yoshihiro Yamakawa, Michiyo Ushijima, Kiyoshi Kato
Reactive lymphoid hyperplasia of liver mimicking late ovarian cancer recurrence: case report and literature review
Claudia Marchetti, Natalina Manci, Marco Di Maurizio, Chiara Di Tucci, Moira Burratti, MariaLetizia Iuliano, Margherita Giorgini, Laura Salerno, Pierluigi Benedetti Panici
Objective response with lapatinib in patients with meningitis carcinomatosa derived from HER2/HER1-negative breast cancer
Hideya Onishi, Takashi Morisaki, Yuji Nakafusa, Yutaka Nakashima, Kazunori Yokohata, Mitsuo Katano
Complete remission in a patient with metastatic mixed adenocarcinoma/extrapulmonary small cell carcinoma of the prostate
Jonathan Edward Brammer, Premal Lulla, Garrett Rush Lynch
Metachronous multiple adenocarcinomas of the pancreas
Yoshito Ikematsu, Hiroaki Tamura, Yuuki Nakata, Tadataka Hayashi, Toshikazu Kanai, Kazuhisa Hirayama, Hiroki Mori, Takachika Ozawa, Shinichi Hasegawa, Taketoshi Okawada, Shinji Kageyama, Haruhiko Sugimura, Yoshiro Nishiwaki
A case of acute aortic thrombosis after cisplatin-based chemotherapy
Suk Jae Hahn, Jin Young Oh, Jeung Sook Kim, Do Yeun Kim
First case of vaginal radical trachelectomy in a pregnant Japanese woman
Nanako Iwami, Shin-ichi Ishioka, Toshiaki Endo, Tsuyoshi Baba, Kunihiko Nagasawa, Madoka Takahashi, Asuka Sugio, Sakura Takada, Tasuku Mariya, Masahiro Mizunuma, Tsuyoshi Saito
Surgical intervention for imatinib and sunitinib-resistant gastrointestinal stromal tumors
Hirotoshi Kikuchi, Tomohiko Setoguchi, Shinichiro Miyazaki, Masayoshi Yamamoto, Manabu Ohta, Kinji Kamiya, Takanori Sakaguchi, Hiroyuki Konno
Lung cancer: atypical brain metastases mimicking neurocysticercosis
Patrícia Caetano Mota, Carina Reis, Nuno Filipe Pires, Graça Sousa, Clara Chamadoira, Marcos Guimarães, Lígia Castro, Margarida Marques, Isabel Gomes
A case of primary alveolar soft part sarcoma of the uterine cervix and a review of the literature
Kiyoshi Hasegawa, Ryoko Ichikawa, Risa Ishii, Shuko Oe, Rina Kato, Yoichi Kobayashi, Makoto Kuroda, Yasuhiro Udagawa
Two cases of plasmacytoid variant of urothelial carcinoma of urinary bladder: systemic chemotherapy might be of benefit
Takuji Hayashi, Go Tanigawa, Kazutoshi Fujita, Ryoichi Imamura, Shigeaki Nakazawa, Yoshiyuki Yamamoto, Masahiro Hosomi, Kohki Shimazu, Hiroaki Fushimi, Seiji Yamaguchi
Interstitial pneumonitis induced by bicalutamide given for prostate cancer
Toshihiko Masago, Takeshi Watanabe, Ryosuke Nemoto, Kinya Motoda
A case of heavily pretreated rectal cancer with disseminated intravascular coagulation that improved following reintroduction of FOLFOX plus bevacizumab
Ayako Mizota, Kohei Shitara, Chihiro Kondo, Motoo Nomura, Tomoya Yokota, Daisuke Takahari, Takashi Ura, Kei Muro
An early event of EGFR mutation in pleomorphic carcinoma of the lung
Miyako Saitoh, Mafumi Niijima, Yuichi Takiguchi, Kenzo Hiroshima, Yoshihiko Fujita, Kazuto Nishio, Koichiro Tatsumi
Ileal perforation induced by acute radiation injury under gefitinib treatment
Takayuki Muraoka, Kazunori Tsukuda, Shinichi Toyooka, Shunsuke Kagawa, Yoshio Naomoto, Mitsuhiro Takemoto, Kuniaki Katsui, Susumu Kanazawa, Yuho Maki, Hiroko Masuda, Masaaki Harada, Hiroaki Asano, Minoru Naito, Shinichiro Miyoshi
A case of enteropathy-associated T-cell lymphoma: diagnosis by flow cytometric immunophenotyping and genome analysis using ascitic fluid
Masako Nishimura, Kenjiro Tomo