Publications by authors named "Natsuko Nagano"
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- Malignant psoas syndrome is caused by tumor infiltration of the psoas muscle, leading to severe, challenging pain management with no established definitive treatments.
- A case study of a Japanese man in his 60s showed ineffective pain relief with various medications, prompting the use of palliative radiation therapy.
- Radiation therapy effectively reduced pain early on and showed no adverse effects, suggesting it should be considered as a viable treatment option for malignant psoas syndrome.
Stage IV breast cancer is difficult to cure and is mainly treated with systemic therapy. However, when distant metastasis is oligometastatic, proactive treatment including local therapies for the primary lesion and distant metastases has been reported to improve prognosis. We encountered a patient who had left breast cancer with ipsilateral cervical lymph node metastases.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFJapan's Academic Barriers to Gender Equality as Seen in a Comparison of Public and Private Medical Schools: A Cross-Sectional Study.
Womens Health Rep (New Rochelle)
January 2022
Gender inequalities persist in Japanese academic medicine. Some public medical schools have introduced various types of career support for women physicians, whereas few private schools have. Few studies describe the representation of women at different academic ranks and adequacy of career support in public and private medical schools in Japan.
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