Publications by authors named "Mika Iizuka"

Two years of palliative home care for advanced and recurrent breast cancer of six patients was performed since January 2007. The reasons to provide palliative home care include an administration of skin infiltrative tumor, pain, home oxygen therapy (HOT), and chemotherapy. Most important part of home palliative care is to prepare any physical and psychosocial problems among any types of occupation.

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A 46-year-old woman was diagnosed with complaints of bilateral breast tumor with massive ascites retention. The patient was examined as scirrhous carcinoma by lacteal gland inspection and dysplastic cell by ascites cytotechnology. We diagnosed her case to be bilateral breast cancer with peritonitis carcinomatosa, lymph node metastases and bony metastases.

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We here describe a case of advanced breast cancer (Stage IV) in which an oral S-1+TAM therapy following a primary systemic chemo-radiotherapy has been effective in maintaining the patient's QOL. A 40-year-old woman visited our hospital because of her left breast tumor. On physical examination, the tumor had invaded to the skin adjacent to the nipple forming a skin ulcer and marked deformity of the entire breast.

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