Metastatic lymph nodes of occult breast cancer show very low internal echoes.

A 62-year-old woman showed an elevation of carcinoembryonic antigen (CEA) level 15 years after the left breast cancer, i.e., tubule forming type luminal micro invasive cancer, operation.

Latissimus dorsi musculocutaneous flap grafting to the infected recipient site in a patient with irradiated locally advanced breast cancer and multiple lung metastases.

Background: Musculocutaneous (MC) flaps are more resistant to infection than implants, but no clinical results have been reported so far about the grafting of MC flap to the overtly infected sites.

Case Presentation: A 66-year-old woman had received radiotherapy, a total dose of 50 Gy, to her large mucinous breast cancer to control bleeding from the tumor and was referred to our hospital for further treatment. On her first visit to our hospital, her left breast showed radiation-induced total necrosis with Pseudomonas aeruginosa infection.

Confirmed complete response to nivolumab for advanced gastric cancer with peritoneal dissemination: a case report.

Background: Recent advances in cancer immunotherapy have been remarkable, with many reports on the clinical effects of immune checkpoint inhibitors. Nivolumab has been covered by the national health insurance in Japan as a third-line agent for advanced and recurrent gastric cancer since September 2017. The objective response rate for nivolumab for gastric cancer is 11.

Subclinical Needle Tract Seeding by Endoscopic Ultrasound-Guided Fine-Needle Aspiration for Pancreatic Cancer.

A 77-year-old woman with epigastralgia was referred to our hospital. Abdominal computed tomography showed a hypointense mass in the pancreatic tail. Abdominal and endoscopic ultrasonography (EUS) showed a hypo-echoic mass, 25 × 25 mm in size, with pancreatic duct dilatation.