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A 72-year-old man who received warfarin for myocardial infarction (prothrombin time-international normalized ratio [PT-INR] controlled between 2.2 and 2.5) for 2 years. He developed lung cancer, underwent surgery, and received tegafur plus uracil (UFT) after 1 month. After 2 months, he was admitted
We report a case of a complete response to treatment with uracil-tegafur (UFT) alone in advanced rectal cancer. The patient was an 84-year-old woman referred to our hospital complaining of anal bleeding. A colonoscopy revealed a Borrmann type II tumor in the rectum, which was diagnosed as an
We describe the case of a 75-year-old woman who underwent bilateral oophorectomy for bleeding due to right ovarian metastasis after hepatectomy for metachronous liver metastasis from sigmoid colon cancer. She underwent curative resection for sigmoid colon cancer( T4a, N2, M0, Stage IIIC). She
We report a case of complete remission of multiple hepatocellular carcinomas after oral administration of enteric-coated tegafur/uracil. A 77-yr-old woman was diagnosed as having recurrent hepatocellular carcinoma associated with decompensated liver cirrhosis. We administered enteric-coated
A 61-year-old man on hemodialysis due to chronic renal failure caused by diabetes mellitus was diagnosed as having ascending colon cancer with multiple liver metastases. Colonoscopy revealed a Type 2 tumor located in the ascending colon. Abdominal CT showed hepatic tumors in S8 measuring 8×7 cm and
OBJECTIVE
Sorafenib, a multi-kinase inhibitor with anti-angiogenic activity, was recently approved for the treatment of advanced hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). Metronomic chemotherapy using tegafur/uracil (4:1 molar ratio), an oral fluoropyrimidine, has been shown to enhance the anti-tumor effect
Eight different compounds, all nucleoside analogues, could presently be considered as potential drug candidates for the treatment of Ebola virus (EBOV) and/or other hemorrhagic fever virus (HFV) infections. They can be considered as either (i) adenine analogues (3-deazaneplanocin A, galidesivir,
Fifty patients with advanced breast cancer (21 undergoing first and second stage palliative treatment: group 1, and 29 undergoing stage three or more: group 2), were included in a phase II trial with administration of a combination relay chemotherapy consisting of cisplatin (100 mg/m2/day) and
Herein, we describe the case of a 54-year-old woman who presented with the chief complaint of right breast hemorrhage. A lump on her right breast first became visible in January 2008. The patient visited the hospital because of an increase in size of the lump. Core needle biopsy revealed a solid
Eimeria tenella, an intracellular protozoan parasite infecting the epithelial cells of the ceca of chickens, causes severe diarrhea and bleeding that can lead its host to death. It is of interest that E. tenella first penetrate into the mucosal intraepithelial lymphocytes (IEL) before they
A 68-year-old woman underwent surgical treatment for renal cell carcinoma associated with tumor thrombus extending into the right atrium. Although the tumor thrombus reached the level of the right atrium, there were no other apparent metastases. Combination therapy with interferon alfa plus
A 65-year-old woman was found to have a mass shadow on chest computed tomography. The patient had been diagnosed as having myelodysplastic syndrome 3 years before admission. She was transferred to our hospital for further examination of the mass in the lower lobe of left lung. The mass was positron
BACKGROUND
Small-cell neuroendocrine carcinoma in the duodenum is an extremely rare neoplasm with poor prognosis.
METHODS
A 57-year-old man presented with sudden onset gastrointestinal bleeding and fainting attacks. Duodenoscopy and hypotonic duodenography revealed a 3 x 3 cm protruding tumor with
Thirty two patients with refractory or recurrent acute leukemia or blast crisis of chronic myelocytic leukemia were treated with 1-beta-D-arabinofuranosylcytosine (Ara-C), 100 mg/m2 [group I (n = 15)] or 200 mg/m2 [group II (n = 18)], and tetrahydrouridine (THU) 350 mg/m2, given concurrently as a 3
We report a case of a 79-year-old man who developed severe therapy-related pancytopenia from tegafur uracil(UFT)and Leucovorin(LV)as adjuvant chemotherapy for ascending colon cancer. Laparoscopic right hemicolectomy resection was performed for the ascending colon cancer. Pathohistological analysis