Shiota, Tetsuya Watanabe, Akiharu Mitani, Ken Ito, Toshio Tobe, Kazuo Nagashima, Hideo
A patient with an unresectable hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) who survived without active treatment 3 years and 8 months after histological diagnosis is described. The size of the liver, which was already quite huge at the time of diagnosis, changed little during the entire clinical observation. However, 2 months before death, his condition deterio...
Kitamura, Soichiro Kawachi, Kanji Taniguchi, Shigeki Kawata, Tetsuji Kobayashi, Shuichi Nishioka, Hiroaki Mizuguchi, Kazumi Niwaya, Kazuo Kameda, Yoichi Sakaguchi, Hidehito
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The Japanese Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery
ObjectivesThis study sought to determine the effects of grafting the internal thoracic artery (ITA) to the left anterior descending coronary artery (LAD) on long-term (10-year) survival, the cardiac death-free rate, and on the cardiac event-free rate in Japanese patients.BackgroundThe use of ITA grafts has been reported to enhance postoperative sur...
Salvati, Maurizio Cervoni, Luigi Artico, Marco Caruso, Riccardo Gagliardi, Franco Maria
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Journal of Neuro-Oncology
The authors report 11 patients with cerebral glioblastoma who lived at least 5 years after their initial diagnosis. There were 6 female and 5 male; the mean age was 39 years (range 24–55 years). All patients were treated surgically and postoperatively received whole-brain radiotherapy and chemotherapy. Five patients (45%) presented local recurrence...
Celli, Paolo Cervoni, Luigi Maraglino, Cosimo
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Journal of Neuro-Oncology
Cerebral rhabdomyosarcoma is a highly aggressive tumor with poor prognosis affecting children and, rarely, adults. The authors describe the case of a patient treated for primary fronto-parietal embryonal rhabdomyosarcoma with a long survival (30 months after surgery) and no clinical or radiological evidence of recurrence and discuss the chemotherap...
Eriguchi, Naofumi Aoyagi, Shigeaki Hara, Masao Fukuda, Shuichi Tanaka, Eiji Hashimoto, Mitsuo
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Surgery Today
Islet cell carcinoma of the pancreas is a rare, indolent malignancy associated with a higher resectability rate and better survival than ductal carcinoma. This retrospective study presents the results of surgical treatment for nonfunctioning islet cell carcinoma of the pancreas in seven patients diagnosed and treated at Kurume University Hospital. ...
Cuschieri, A Weeden, S Fielding, J Bancewicz, J Craven, J Joypaul, V Sydes, M Fayers, P
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British journal of cancer
Controversy still exists on the optimal surgical resection for potentially curable gastric cancer. Much better long-term survival has been reported in retrospective/non-randomized studies with D2 resections that involve a radical extended regional lymphadenectomy than with the standard D1 resections. In this paper we report the long-term survival o...
Takahashi, Takao Akamine, Shinji Morinaga, Masafumi Oka, Tadayuki Tagawa, Yutaka Ayabe, Hiroyoshi
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The Japanese Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery
We analyzed 49 patients with non-small-cell lung cancer invading mediastinal organs such as the left atrium (15), superior vena cava (13), trachea (11), aorta (5), thoracic vertebral body (4) and esophagus (1). Lung resection included lobectomy (37), pneumonectomy (8) and limited resection (4). Twenty-seven patients underwent carina- or bronchoplas...
Aparicio, J Segura, A Montalar, J Garcerá, S Oltra, A Santaballa, A Yuste, A Pastor, M Munárriz, B
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Medical Oncology
Since the introduction of multimodality treatment, the prognosis of patients with high-grade non-metastatic osteosarcoma has significantly improved. A retrospective review was performed to assess the long-term results of this approach in a single centre setting, and to investigate the impact of potential clinical prognostic factors. Between 1985 an...
Nakagoe, Tohru Sawai, Terumitsu Tsuji, Takashi Jibiki, Masaaki Nanashima, Atsushi Yamaguchi, Hiroyuki Yasutake, Toru Ayabe, Hiroyoshi Ishikawa, Hiroshi
Purpose: Carcinoma of the splenic flexure is uncommon and it is associated with a high risk of obstruction. However, survival after resection of this tumor is controversial. The aim of this study was to evaluate cancer specific long-term survival after surgery for splenic flexure cancers compared to survival for the colon cancer at other sites. Pat...
Kato, T Kimura, T Miyakawa, R Fujii, A Yamamoto, K Kameoka, S Nishikawa, T Kasajima, T
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British journal of cancer
This study was undertaken to determine the absolute and relative value of blood vessel invasion (BVI) using both factor VIII-related antigen and elastica van Gieson staining, proliferating cell nuclear antigen (PCNA), p53, c-erbB-2, and conventional prognostic factors in predicting relapse-free survival (RFS) and overall survival (OS) rates associa...