[Efforts toward Venous Access of Anti-Cancer Drug by Nurses].

Our hospital has an established outpatient chemotherapy room, and medical doctors have accessed veins for infusion so far. We trialed venous access by nurses for the purpose of managing safe and proper cancer chemotherapy, reducing the work of doctors, and reducing patient waiting time. A questionnaire was conducted in June 2013, and nurses secured routes at 19 facilities(58%)of the 33 national university hospitals.

[A case of migratory air space infiltration after radiation therapy for breast cancer].

A 54-year-old woman underwent conserving surgery for right breast cancer, and received a cumulative dose of 50 Gy of radiation therapy to the remaining part of the right breast. About five months after the termination of irradiation, cough and low-grade fever developed. The chest radiograph showed an infiltrative shadow in the right lung field.

[Clinical characteristics in 8 sporadic cases of community-acquired Legionella pneumonia].

To study the clinical characteristics of community-acquired Legionella pneumonia, we carried out a study of 8 patients (7 men and a woman; mean age, 68.4 years) with Legionella pneumonia at Yaizu Municipal General Hospital between 1996 and 1999. We surmised that the sources of infection were travel or a hot spring, or both, in 4 cases, occupation (plumbing and fish market work) in 2 cases and gardening in one.