Improving compliance with guidelines may lead to favorable clinical outcomes for patients with non-muscle-invasive bladder cancer: A retrospective multicenter study.

Objectives: Clinical guidelines recommend that patients with non-muscle-invasive bladder cancer (NMIBC) should be treated with appropriate adjuvant therapy. However, compliance with guideline recommendations is insufficient, and this may lead to unfavorable outcomes. We aimed to investigate the level of adherence to guideline recommendations in patients with NMIBC and evaluate the outcomes of those who did and did not receive guideline-recommended therapies.

A case of testicular cancer with retroperitoneal lymph node metastasis of teratoma with somatic-type malignancy 18 years after initial treatment.

Introduction: In testicular cancer, late relapse of teratoma with somatic-type malignancy is rare and associated with a poor survival. A case of retroperitoneal lymph node metastasis of teratoma with somatic-type malignancy 18 years after initial treatment for testicular cancer is reported.

Case Presentation: A 46-year-old man had a 15-mm-sized mass in the para-aortic region 18 years after initial treatment for testicular cancer, without elevated serum alfa-fetoprotein or human chorionic gonadotropin levels.

[Two Case Reports of Penile Fracture : Consideration on Sexual Function].

Approximately 400 cases of penile fracture have been reported in Japan, but the sexual function before and after treatment has not been evaluated. Here, we show 2 surgical procedures dealing with penile fractureand examinethechange s in sexual functions using IIEF-5. Case1 was in a 51 year old malewho underwent emergency surgery for a penile fracture.

Transient increase in lactate dehydrogenase after granulocyte colony-stimulating factor administration during chemotherapy in a patient with advanced seminoma.

Introduction: Granulocyte colony-stimulating factor is often reported to induce increases in lactate dehydrogenase, complicating the evaluation of treatment effects on germ cell tumors.

Case Presentation: A 30-year-old patient was diagnosed with left testicular seminoma showing enlarged para-aortic lymph nodes and a retroperitoneal tumor. Serum levels of lactate dehydrogenase were elevated.

[Availability of Local Therapy to Castration-Resistant Prostate Cancer for M0 Patients with Initial Prostate Specific Antigen 100 ng/ml or Higher].

Prostate cancer patients with initial PSA 100 ng/ml or greater who received transrectal ultrasoundguided prostate biopsy and were staged as M0 by imaging studies from 2011 to 2014 in seven hospitals, were enrolled in the study. Castration-resistant prostate cancer (CRPC)-free survival was compared between the two treatment groups : androgen deprivation therapy (ADT) alone and ADT plus local therapy. Of 142 prostate cancer patients with initial PSA 100 ng/ml or greater, 49 (34.

[THREE CASE REPORTS OF METACHRONOUS BILATERAL TESTICULAR TUMOR: INVESTIGATION OF SEXUAL FUNCTION AND FERTILITY].

The sexual dysfunction and infertility after treatment of bilateral germ cell tumors (GCT) becomes the serious problem. Therefore andrological aspects as well as cancer curability should be considered in planning of bilateral GCT treatment. Here we report 3 cases of metachronous bilateral GCT treated with different regimens, and discuss from the viewpoint of preservation of sexual function.

Docetaxel, cisplatin and 5-fluorouracil chemotherapy with concurrent radiation for unresectable advanced urethral carcinoma.

The present case report describes two cases of unresectable advanced primary urethral carcinoma. Case 1 was a 61-year-old man with squamous cell carcinoma of the urethra that directly invaded into the perineal skin. Case 2 was a 64-year-old woman with adenocarcinoma, and solitary lung and lymph node metastases.

Encrusted cystitis causing postrenal failure.

Encrusted cystitis is characterized by chronic inflammation of the bladder with encrustation of the mucosa, induced by urea-splitting bacterial infection. However, encrusted cystitis in itself is not well known. We report a case of encrusted cystitis causing postrenal failure.