Establishing an Indicator of Hypokalemia in Patients Receiving Anti-Epidermal Growth Factor Receptor Antibodies.

Risk factors for hypokalemia were analyzed in patients who received anti-epidermal growth factor receptor monoclonal antibodies (anti-EGFR MoAbs) at Gifu Municipal Hospital between February 2010 and March 2013. Subjects were 51 patients (27 men and 24 women) with the median age (interquartile range) of 66 (63-72) years. The study period started from the initiation of anti-EGFR MoAbs administration and ended 4 weeks after administration was completed.

A patient with spontaneous rupture of the esophagus and concomitant gastric cancer whose life was saved: case of report and review of the literature in Japan.

A 71-year-old man suddenly developed abdominal pain and vomiting on drinking soda after a meal, and visited a physician. Cervical subcutaneous and mediastinal emphysemas were observed on CT, and the patient was transferred to the emergency medical center of our hospital on the same day. Esophagography was performed at our department.

[A case of advanced colon cancer with metastases to both supraclavicular and para-aortic lymph nodes effectively treated by radiation and S-1 therapy].

We report the case of a 60-year-old woman with multiple lymph node metastases after ascending colon cancer who received radiation therapy and then chemotherapy with S-1. She was diagnosed with lymph node metastasis of the para aorta and left upper clavicle 10 months after surgery. We performed radiation therapy for the left upper clavicle (64 Gy)and para aorta (40 Gy).

[Three cases of gastric cancer with para-aortic lymph node metastases succesfully treated by S-1/CDDP combination therapy followed by curative resection].

Due to advanced gastric cancer with abdominal para-aortic lymph node metastases, we performed a curative operation in three cases in which S-1/CDDP combination therapy proved effective. In case 1, after only one course of this chemotherapy, the reduction of the primary lesion was slight, but para-aortic metastatic lymph nodes were remarkably reduced. We performed a curative operation with complete D3 lymph node dissection.