The use of nivolumab as first-line therapy for unresectable advanced gastric cancer has now become a standard practice, and its efficacy has been established. This is the first report of a patient with advanced gastric cancer who underwent conversion surgery after first-line nivolumab combination chemotherapy. The patient was a 58-year-old woman.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFA 79-year-old male presented with right inguinal mass and right leg pain. Laparoscopic right hemicolectomy was performed for transverse colon cancer(type 1, muc, pSS, pN1a, pStage Ⅲa)3 years and 6 months ago. We resected the mass located in the spermatic cord and reconstructed it using the Direct Kugel Patch.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFCombination therapy containingnab -paclitaxel(nab-PTX)and gemcitabine(GEM)is widely administered for metastatic pancreatic cancer. Recently, this regimen is likely to be applied for treatment in patients with locally advanced disease or for neoadjuvant chemotherapy(NAC)in patients with borderline resectable(BR)pancreatic cancer. We report a case of BR pancreatic cancer in a patient who was eligible for comparison of the imaging findings with the microscopic findings of the resected specimen.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe patient was a 39-year-old woman who was referred to our hospital with suspicion of locally-advanced breast cancer. After several tests, she received a diagnosis of cT4bN1M1 (liver), Stage Ⅳbreast cancer. The liver metastasis was located in S4, and was 1 cm in size.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFA 60-year-old man who had bloody stools after sigmoid colonoscopy was admitted to our hospital. A digital examination and sigmoid colonoscopy showed a type 2 circular tumor at location Rb with incomplete mobility and tumor hemorrhage, and the result of a biopsy was moderately differentiated adenocarcinoma (tub2). Computed tomography and magnetic resonance imaging suggested a possibility of invasion of the primary rectal tumor to the sacrum.
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