Erdal, Gulcin Sahingoz Polat, Ozlem Erdem, Gokmen Umut Korkusuz, Ramazan Hindilerden, Fehmi Yilmaz, Mesut Yasar, Kadriye Kart Isiksacan, Nilgun Tural, Deniz
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International Journal of Clinical Oncology
Background Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has quickly turned into a global pandemic with close to 5 million cases and more than 320,000 deaths. Cancer patients constitute a group that is expected to be at risk and poor prognosis in COVID pandemic. We aimed to investigate how cancer patients are affected by COVID-19 infection, its clinical cour...
Harada, Toshiyuki Imai, Hisao Fumita, Soichi Noriyuki, Toshio Gamoh, Makio Okamoto, Masaharu Akashi, Yusaku Kizawa, Yoshiyuki Tokoro, Akihiro
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International journal of clinical oncology
Constipation is a common side effect of opioid therapy. An observational study of opioid-induced constipation (OIC) in Japanese patients with cancer (OIC-J) included 212 patients with various tumor types. This post hoc analysis of OIC-J evaluated a subgroup of patients with gastrointestinal (GI) cancer. Patients were aged ≥ 20 years, starting stron...
Tamura, Shigeyuki Taniguchi, Hirokazu Nishikawa, Kazuhiro Imamura, Hiroshi Fujita, Junya Takeno, Atsushi Matsuyama, Jin Kimura, Yutaka Kawada, Junji Hirao, Motohiro
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International journal of clinical oncology
For unresectable or recurrent advanced gastric adenocarcinoma (AGC), tri-weekly administration of nanoparticle albumin-bound paclitaxel (nab-PTX) at 260 mg/m2 achieved a response rate of 27.8% in a phase II trial in Japan. However, frequent neutropenia and peripheral neuropathy limit its use in clinical settings. We, thus, conducted a single-arm ph...
Osawa, Takahiro Wei, John T Abe, Takashige Honda, Michitaka Yamada, Shuhei Furumido, Jun Kikuchi, Hiroshi Matsumoto, Ryuji Hirakawa, Kazushi Sato, Yasuyuki
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International journal of clinical oncology
We validated a Japanese version of the Bladder Cancer Index (BCI) as a tool for measuring health-related quality of life (HRQOL) in bladder cancer patients treated with various surgical procedures. The reliability and validity of the Japanese BCI were examined in 397 Japanese patients with bladder cancer via cross-sectional analysis. The patients s...
Naito, Yoichi Aburatani, Hiroyuki Amano, Toraji Baba, Eishi Furukawa, Toru Hayashida, Tetsu Hiyama, Eiso Ikeda, Sadakatsu Kanai, Masashi Kato, Motohiro
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International Journal of Clinical Oncology
Background To promote precision oncology in clinical practice, the Japanese Society of Medical Oncology, the Japanese Society of Clinical Oncology, and the Japanese Cancer Association, jointly published “Clinical practice guidance for next-generation sequencing in cancer diagnosis and treatment” in 2017. Since new information on cancer genomic medi...
Nakamura, Shohei Kanemasa, Yusuke Atsuta, Yuya Fujiwara, Sho Tanaka, Masaru Fukushima, Kazuaki Kobayashi, Taiichiro Shimoyama, Tatsu Omuro, Yasushi Sekiya, Noritaka
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International Journal of Clinical Oncology
Background Although severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) has caused an international outbreak of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), data on the clinical characteristics of COVID-19 patients with cancer are limited. This study aimed to evaluate the clinical characteristics and outcomes including mortality and viral shedding...
Taniuchi, Masataka Kawata, Ryo Omura, Shuji Haginomori, Shin- Ichi Terada, Tetsuya Higashino, Masaaki Kurisu, Yoshitaka Hirose, Yoshinobu
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International Journal of Clinical Oncology
Background When determining treatment strategy for a salivary gland tumor, assessing histology and malignancy grade before surgery is essential. Several new diagnostic classification systems for salivary gland cytology have recently been proposed. However, none incorporate histology and grade of malignancy. Methods We developed a new cytology class...
Aogi, Kenjiro Takeuchi, Hideki Saeki, Toshiaki Aiba, Keisuke Tamura, Kazuo Iino, Keiko Imamura, Chiyo K. Okita, Kenji Kagami, Yoshikazu Tanaka, Ryuhei
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International Journal of Clinical Oncology
Patients with cancer should appropriately receive antiemetic therapies against chemotherapy-induced nausea and vomiting (CINV). Antiemetic guidelines play an important role in managing CINV. Accordingly, the first Japanese antiemetic guideline published in 2010 by the Japan Society of Clinical Oncology (JSCO) has considerably aided Japanese medical...
Miura, Noriyoshi Mori, Keiichiro Mostafaei, Hadi Quhal, Fahad Sari Motlagh, Reza Abufaraj, Mohammad Pradere, Benjamin Aydh, Abdulmajeed Laukhtina, Ekaterina D'Andrea, David
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International journal of clinical oncology
This systematic review and meta-analysis aimed to assess the prognostic value of testosterone in patients with castration-resistant prostate cancer (CRPC). PubMed, Web of Science, and Scopus databases were systematically searched until December 2019, according to the Preferred Reporting Items for Systemic Review and Meta-analysis statement. The end...
Mori, Keiichiro Mostafaei, Hadi Pradere, Benjamin Motlagh, Reza Sari Quhal, Fahad Laukhtina, Ekaterina Schuettfort, Victor M Abufaraj, Mohammad Karakiewicz, Pierre I Kimura, Takahiro
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International journal of clinical oncology
Management of non-metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer (nmCRPC) has undergone a paradigm shift with next-generation androgen receptor inhibitors. However, direct comparative data are not available to inform treatment decisions and/or guideline recommendations. Therefore, we performed network meta-analysis to indirectly compare the effica...
