Views of Japanese medical students on the work-life balance of female physicians.

Objectives: To survey medical students on their ideas of future work-life balance and discuss topics for next-generation medical education.

Methods: First-year (n=372, 34.9% female) and sixth-year medical students (n=311, 44.

[Loco-regional chemotherapy at the outpatient clinic for gastric cancer patients with home enteral nutrition].

In over the 10 years from 2000-2010, 21 gastric cancer patients received loco-regional chemotherapy with home enteral nutrition (HEN) at an outpatient clinic because of insufficient oral intake. These loco-regional chemotherapy regimens consisted of 5 intra-aortic chemotherapies, 4 hepato-arterial infusions and 12 intra-peritoneal chemotherapies. Five out of 8 cases that had measurable lesions showed PR, and 3 cases revealed PD.