Publications by authors named "You Mizukami"

An 84-year-old woman had locally advanced sigmoid colon cancer that was unresectable because of deep invasion in the left pelvic wall. Transverse double-barrel colostomy was performed owing to stenosis in the sigmoid colon. The patient's performance status score was 2, and it was difficult to administer cytotoxic chemotherapy.

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A 77-year-old man was diagnosed with gastric cancer with synchronous single liver metastasis and portal vein thrombus. His HER2 immunohistochemistry tumor score was 3+; therefore, we administered trastuzumab plus capecitabine plus cisplatin. After 2 courses of chemotherapy, we observed disappearance of the portal vein thrombus and tumor reduction as a partial response, according to the RECIST guidelines.

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