Cardiac 18F‑FDG uptake and new‑onset rectal cancer.

The present study aimed to investigate the factors affecting the cardiac uptake of 18F-fluorodeoxyglucose (18F-FDG) during 18F-FDG positron emission tomography (PET) for new-onset rectal cancer and new-onset colon cancer (ascending, transverse, descending, sigmoid colon cancer) and to examine the association between the cardiac uptake of 18F-FDG and prognosis. The participants were diagnosed with new-onset rectal cancer and new-onset colon cancer (ascending, transverse, descending, sigmoid cancer) at the Iga City General Hospital (Iga, Japan) between January 1, 2013, and March 31, 2018, and underwent an 18F-FDG PET scan for pretreatment staging. The relationship between cardiac maximum standard uptake value (SUVmax), the presence/absence of distant metastasis and prognosis was examined.

Relationship between health-related quality of life domains and bone status in postmenopausal Japanese women.

Objective: To assess the relationship between health-related quality of life domains and bone status, including bone metabolism, in postmenopausal Japanese community women.

Design: The study subjects were 88 women who were participants in a screening program for osteoporosis in 2003 without a history of mental disorders, metabolic disorders, smoking, bone fractures, and/or estrogen treatment. The participation rate was 75.

Repeated hepatic arterial infusion chemotherapy using an implanted port system in patients with unresectable malignant liver neoplasms: significant factors affecting early hepatic arterial occlusion.

The purpose of this study was to identify significant factors affecting early hepatic arterial occlusion in patients who received repeated hepatic arterial infusion chemotherapy using an implanted port system. Eighty-five patients with unresectable liver neoplasms who underwent implantation of the port system were studied. Arterial infusion chemotherapy was performed every 1-4 weeks.

Renal angiomyolipoma: relationships between tumor size, aneurysm formation, and rupture.

Purpose: To evaluate the relationships between tumor size, aneurysm formation, and spontaneous rupture in renal angiomyolipomas.

Materials And Methods: Twenty-three patients with renal angiomyolipoma were examined with angiography and computed tomography (CT). The single largest lesion in each kidney was evaluated.

Preoperative transcatheter arterial infusion chemotherapy for locally advanced breast cancer (stage IIIb) for down-staging and increase of resectability.

Objectives: To evaluate the clinical usefulness of preoperative transcatheter arterial infusion chemotherapy (TAIC) for locally advanced breast cancer.

Methods: Seven patients with unresectable locally advanced breast cancer (stage IIIb) underwent TAIC percutaneously 1-3 times (mean, 1.7 times) until tumors became resectable.

Arterial chemoinfusion therapy through an implanted port system for patients with unresectable intrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma--initial experience.

Arterial chemoinfusion therapy through an implanted port system was performed for patients with unresectable intrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma (ICC). Eleven patients with unresectable ICC were studied. Seven patients had stage-IV disease, two had stage-III disease, and two had stage-II disease.