Publications by authors named "Hiroki Johira"

The patient was a 69-year-old man. He visited our hospital with a complaint of right back pain. An abdominal CT scan confirmed a hypovascular mass 35 mm in diameter in the pancreatic head.

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A 70-year-old man who was diagnosed with a cStage ⅣA lung adenocarcinoma was in a stable condition for a long time after the first chemotherapy with gefitinib. However, 2 years 4 months later, the lung cancer progressed, and he was diagnosed with Stage Ⅲ gastric cancer. Since the administration of afatinib as the second-line chemotherapy was ineffective, nivolumab was administered as the third-line chemotherapy.

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A 53-year-old woman was referred to our hospital because of upper abdominal pain and expansion of the pancreatic main duct. Enhanced computed tomography revealed expansion of the main pancreatic duct from the head to the tail; in addition, a 30 mm cystic tumor was observed in the pancreatic head and a 56 mm tumor was observed in the ventral side of the pancreatic body. Endoscopy revealed fistula formation in the duodenum of the Vater papilla on the oral side.

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A 73-year-old woman underwent pectoralis-preserving mastectomy for left breast cancer (papillotubular carcinoma, f, T2, ly0, v0, N1 (21/21), T2N1M0 (Stage IIB), ER (-), PgR (-), HER2 (-)) in August 2004. It was called a triple negative breast cancer. She received systemic chemotherapy using AC followed by paclitaxel.

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We used TS-1 as first-line therapy to treat 44 patients with far advanced or recurrent gastric cancer, and assessed the results and safety. One treatment cycle consisted of TS-1, 80 mg/m2/day, for 28 days followed by a 14-day rest period. The efficacy rate in the cases capable of being evaluated was 30.

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