Symptom palliation with QUAD Shot radiation therapy to penile metastasis derived from descending colon cancer: a case report.

A 54-year-old man was diagnosed with descending colon cancer with metastases in the liver, para-aortic lymph nodes, and penis, and chemotherapy was introduced after construction of a colostomy. The patient reported only mild penile pain at the time of diagnosis; however, the pain gradually worsened and interfered with his daily life. Opioids did not provide sufficient analgesia, and the patient developed dysuria and priapism.

Clinical utility of lymphocyte to C-reactive protein ratio in predicting survival and postoperative complication for esophago-gastric junction cancer.

Background: There are still no useful predictive biomarkers for esophago-gastric junction (EGJ) cancer. We compared 15 candidate inflammation-based markers and investigated the clinical impact of the selected biomarker.

Methods: One hundred three patients with EGJ cancer between 2002 and 2020 were enrolled, and associations between clinicopathological data and inflammatory biomarkers were retrospectively analyzed.

Prognostic significance of CD8 tumor-infiltrating lymphocytes and CD66b tumor-associated neutrophils in the invasive margins of stages I-III colorectal cancer.

Tumor-infiltrating immune cells play an essential role in cancer progression and may help supplement the Tumor, Node, Metastasis (TNM) classification for cancer prognosis. Currently, there are numerous conflicting reports discussing the significance of tumor-associated neutrophils (TANs) in colorectal cancer (CRC). In particular, the role of TANs in the invasive margin is unclear.

Clinical Relevance of Myopenia and Myosteatosis in Colorectal Cancer.

Sarcopenia was initially described as a decrease in muscle mass associated with aging and subsequently also as a consequence of underlying disease, including advanced malignancy. Accumulating evidence shows that sarcopenia has clinically significant effects in patients with malignancy, including an increased risk of adverse events associated with medical treatment, postoperative complications, and a poor survival outcome. Colorectal cancer (CRC) is one of the most common cancers worldwide, and several lines of evidence suggest that preoperative sarcopenia negatively impacts various outcomes in patients with CRC.

[A Case of Gastric Carcinoma with Lymphoid Stroma That Was Difficult to Diagnose Preoperatively].

A 71-year-old man was referred to our hospital because of a gastric submucosal tumor. Gastrointestinal stromal tumor (GIST)was diagnosed in the antrum of the stomach and local resection was undergone. At this time, upper gastrointestinal endoscopy found the gastric submucosal tumor with a size of about 5 mm on the posterior wall of the fundus, but it was followed up.