{"title":"[A Case of Achieving Radical Cure While Preserving the Function of the Pancreatic Body in a Patient with Double Primary Tumors of Pancreatic Head Cancer and Pancreatic Tail NEN].","authors":"Ryota Kogure, Riki Ninomiya, Kazuhiro Mori, Rihito Nagata, Akifumi Kimura, Masahiko Komagome, Akira Maki, Yoshifumi Beck","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>While pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) originates from exocrine cells of the pancreas, pancreatic neuroendocrine neoplasms (PNENs) arise from pancreatic neuroendocrine cells. The concurrent presence of an exocrine pancreatic tumor and a pancreatic neuroendocrine tumor is referred to broadly as a pancreatic collision tumor. In cases where the lesions are spatially distant, they are termed as multiple primary tumors, a relatively uncommon occurrence. For both, surgical radical resection contributes to improved prognosis. Therefore, accurate evaluation of factors such as tumor number and localization is essential to determine the necessity of radical resection. However, compared to solitary tumors, this often leads to more extensive surgery. We performed subtotal stomach-preserving pancreaticoduodenectomy and distal pancreatectomy (including splenectomy) for a male patient in his 60s with pancreatic head adenocarcinoma and pancreatic tail neuroendocrine tumor (NET) G2. We sought to achieve an insulin-free outcome by preserving the function of the pancreatic body. We report a case where surgical techniques were optimized to enhance postoperative quality of life.</p>","PeriodicalId":35588,"journal":{"name":"Japanese Journal of Cancer and Chemotherapy","volume":"52 1","pages":"64-66"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143433988","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"[A Case of Advanced Gastric Cancer with Massive Lymph Node Metastases Greatly Decreased in Size after Chemotherapy with Nivolumab and SOX].","authors":"Ruiichiro Morita, Yukihiro Kato, Hanae Matsuda, Takuya Kikukawa, Atsushi Isihara, Yasunori Matsuda, Seikann Miyashita, Masahiro Nishikawa, Takahiro Uenishi, Yuuko Kuwae, Masahiko Osawa","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>A 81-year-old woman was referred to our department for further examination and treatment after upper gastrointestinal endoscopy revealed a type 3 tumor in the antrum. CT scan revealed a primary tumor with extramural invasion in the antrum and large lymph nodes bordering the pancreas, as well as in the right side of cardia. A diagnosis of advanced gastric cancer cT4aN2M0, cStage Ⅲ was made. She was administered chemotherapy with nivolumab and SOX. After 2 courses of treatment, CT scan showed marked reduction of the primary tumor and lymph nodes. Therefore, laparoscopic gastrectomy(D2 dissection+Roux-en-Y reconstruction)was performed. Histopathological findings showed that the primary tumor was confined to the sub serosal tissue and no lymph node metastases were observed. The patient is currently alive without recurrence and treated with S-1 monotherapy. Chemotherapy with nivolumab and SOX is considered to be an effective treatment strategy for advanced gastric cancer with advanced lymph node metastases.</p>","PeriodicalId":35588,"journal":{"name":"Japanese Journal of Cancer and Chemotherapy","volume":"52 1","pages":"73-75"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143433989","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"[Significance of Conversion Surgery in Colorectal Cancer].","authors":"Yukihide Kanemitsu, Hiroshi Nagata, Yasuyuki Takamizawa, Konosuke Moritani, Shunsuke Tsukamoto","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Advances in chemotherapy, including molecular-targeted agents, have led to reports of cases of colorectal cancer that are amenable to radical resection after systemic chemotherapy. However, there is no consensus on the optimal treatment to achieve such conversion surgery(therapy). Interpretation in clinical trials is complicated by patient heterogeneity due to prognostic features such as the presence or absence of RAS/BRAF mutations, lack of consensus on unresectable criteria, and lack of data on clinical outcomes of secondary resection. Results of a systematic review based on the results of randomized controlled trials of drug therapy indicate an actual conversion surgery rate of less than 10%, with a limited prognostic benefit when R0 resection is achieved. Prospective studies with clearly defined uncertainties are needed to clarify the significance of conversion surgery in colorectal cancer.</p>","PeriodicalId":35588,"journal":{"name":"Japanese Journal of Cancer and Chemotherapy","volume":"52 1","pages":"15-18"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143433708","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"[Current Status and Issue of Emesis and Vomiting Caused by Trastuzumab Deruxtecan].","authors":"Ai Soma, Fumie Fujisawa, Ayako Higuchi, Yusa Togashi, Azusa Taniguchi, Yuri Oyama, Yukiko Seto, Sone Park, Jun Okuno, Noriyuki Watanabe, Saki Matsui, Tetsuhiro Yoshinami, Minako Nishio, Mikiya Ishihara, Toshinari Yagi, Takahiro Nakayama","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Emesis and vomiting are the most common adverse events related to trastuzumab deruxtecan(T-DXd). T-DXd is listed as a moderate emetogenic chemotherapy(MEC)agent in the latest guidelines for the appropriate use of antiemetic drugs in Japan; however, the National Comprehensive Cancer Network Guidelines regard it as a highly emetogenic chemotherapy (HEC)agent. We investigated the risk factors for chemotherapy-induced nausea and vomiting(CINV)associated with T-DXd by analyzing data from 40 patients with advanced breast cancer(median age, 56 years)were receiving T-DXd administration between June 2020 and July 2023. CINV was graded using CTCAE v5.0. All patients were treated with antiemetic therapy consisting of a 5-HT3 receptor antagonist(5-HT3RA)and dexamethasone(DEX); 3 patients also received an NK1 receptor antagonist(NK1RA). Emesis was observed in 23(57.5%)(Grade≥2 in 7), and vomiting in 2 patients(5.0%, Grade 1). Emesis occurred >1 day after T-DXd administration in 78.3% and lasted for ≥7 days in 69.6%. These symptoms may be characteristic of T-DXd-related CINV. Antiemetic therapy for CINV in HEC may be considered to control T-DXd-associated CINV in patients aged<50 years or in those who did not achieve sufficient curative effects with MEC.</p>","PeriodicalId":35588,"journal":{"name":"Japanese Journal of Cancer and Chemotherapy","volume":"52 1","pages":"31-35"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143433702","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"[Anaplastic Carcinoma of the Pancreas of the Spindle Cell Type with Rapid Growth after Distal Pancreatectomy-A Case Report].","authors":"Hisafumi Akimoto, Suefumi Aosasa, Tatsuro Ishikawa, Makoto Uchiyama, Yasushi Takafuji, Takuya Kato, Takahiro Shimauchi, Kazutsugu Iwamoto, Hiroshi Yamaguchi, Kenji Warigaya, Satoshi Ono","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>A 42-year-old male was referred to our hospital for epigastric and back pain. Following a diagnosis of acute pancreatitis, abdominal CT revealed a low-density tumor measuring 15 mm in diameter in the pancreatic body. Endoscopic retrograde pancreatography showed narrowing of the main pancreatic duct, and cytology of pancreatic juice indicated class Ⅲ. Given the strong suspicion of pancreatic cancer, a distal pancreatectomy was performed. Pathological examination confirmed spindle cell-type anaplastic carcinoma of the pancreas, categorized as pT2, pN0, M0, and pStage ⅠB. Local recurrence and liver metastasis were observed on postoperative day 72. The tumor progressed rapidly, leading to the patient's death on postoperative day 115. Anaplastic carcinoma of the pancreas has a poor prognosis, emphasizing the urgent need for establishing multidisciplinary treatment.</p>","PeriodicalId":35588,"journal":{"name":"Japanese Journal of Cancer and Chemotherapy","volume":"52 1","pages":"37-40"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143433687","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"[Conversion Surgery for Pancreatic Cancer].","authors":"Masanori Horikawa, Mina Fukasawa, Juri Machi, Haruki Urushihara, Yuria Furuhara, Akihiro Sunakawa, Koutarou Yamamoto, Hiromitsu Kusunoki, Nana Kimura, Ryo Muranushi, Yoshihiro Shirai, Katsuhisa Hirano, Toru Watanabe, Kazuto Shibuya, Isaku Yoshioka, Tsutomu Fujii","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Pancreatic cancer is known as a disease with an extremely poor prognosis. Although surgery is the only curative treatment, most pancreatic cancer is already advanced at the time of diagnosis. With advances in multidisciplinary treatment such as chemotherapy, radiation therapy, and heavy-ion therapy, more cases of unresectable(UR)pancreatic cancer are being treated with surgery in recent years. Therefore, the term\"conversion surgery\"has been newly included in the 8th edition of the General Rules for Study of Pancreatic Cancer, and the treatment strategy for UR pancreatic cancer has entered a new phase. Conversion surgery for UR-LA pancreatic cancer is expected to be effective as the indications for chemoradiation and heavy-ion radiation therapy expand. On the other hand, UR-LA pancreatic cancer is not only a locally advanced disease but also a systemic disease, and there have been reports of patients with early postoperative recurrence, so the indication for surgery remains a controversial field. Furthermore, there are increasing reports of conversion surgery for UR-M pancreatic cancer. There are concerns about complications and increased mortality due to extended resection, and early recurrence, so usefulness is not clear at present. Among UR-M, positive peritoneal washing cytology(CY1)is considered to be a preliminary stage of peritoneal dissemination, and is now treated as distant metastasis since the 8th edition of General Rules. CY-positive pancreatic cancer is easier to control than other distant metastases, and CY-negative conversion is expected to be equivalent to that of patients with CY0 at the initial diagnosis. Further evidence for multidisciplinary treatment, including conversion surgery, is expected to be accumulated.</p>","PeriodicalId":35588,"journal":{"name":"Japanese Journal of Cancer and Chemotherapy","volume":"52 1","pages":"19-24"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143433694","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Yoshiteru Katsura, Koji Hayashi, Narumi Sawamura, Risa Kawamoto, Yo Akazawa, Ryuta Ueda, Masahiro Koh, Akio Hara, Hiroshi Takeyama, Natsumi Tanaka, Naomi Urano, Shu Okamura, Setsuko Yoshioka, Hideoki Yokouchi, Chikara Ebisui
{"title":"[Two Cases of Cholangiolocellular Carcinoma with Difficult Preoperative Diagnosis].","authors":"Yoshiteru Katsura, Koji Hayashi, Narumi Sawamura, Risa Kawamoto, Yo Akazawa, Ryuta Ueda, Masahiro Koh, Akio Hara, Hiroshi Takeyama, Natsumi Tanaka, Naomi Urano, Shu Okamura, Setsuko Yoshioka, Hideoki Yokouchi, Chikara Ebisui","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Cholangiocellular carcinoma(CoCC)is a rare form of primary liver cancer. We report 2 cases of cholangiocellular carcinoma(CoCC). Case 1: 66-year-old male. He was initially diagnosed as a suspected hepatic hemangioma and followed up, but 5 months later, contrast-enhanced MRI showed an increasing trend, and he was diagnosed as intrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma and underwent surgery. Case 2: 73-year-old female. She was suspected to have hepatic hemangioma. Eight months later, contrast-enhanced MRI showed an enlargement of 20 mm in size, which led to suspicion of hepatocellular carcinoma or intrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma, and surgery was performed. The pathological diagnosis of both patients was CoCC.</p>","PeriodicalId":35588,"journal":{"name":"Japanese Journal of Cancer and Chemotherapy","volume":"52 1","pages":"49-51"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143433646","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"[A Case of Radical Resection of Intraductal Papillary Mucinous Adenocarcinoma Complicated by Obstructive Pancreatitis].","authors":"Kenji Sakai, Kunihito Gotoh, Naoki Hama, Reishi Toshiyama, Mao Osaki, Shinji Tokuyama, Masaaki Yamamoto, Kenji Kawai, Yusuke Takahashi, Atushi Takeno, Takeshi Kato, Motohiro Hirao","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>We report a case of IPMC complicated with obstructive pancreatitis due to perforation of the duodenum, in which radical surgery was performed. The patient was a 50-year-old man. He was referred to his previous doctor for a thorough examination of jaundice and liver damage. ERCP showed a tumour exposed in the duodenal bulb and IPMC was suspected, but biopsy showed no malignant findings. The patient was treated for obstructive pancreatitis, but the inflammatory response remained elevated. On imaging evaluation, inflammation around the pancreatic body tail remained, but inflammation around the portal vein was relatively mild. The pancreaticoduodenectomy was performed with sub-total gastric preservation. The pathology results showed a diagnosis of IPMC, with destruction of the duodenal wall due to compressible intraductal tumour growth, and a wide area of acute inflammation. The patient was treated with S-1 as adjuvant post-operative chemotherapy for 6 months and is currently recurrence-free.</p>","PeriodicalId":35588,"journal":{"name":"Japanese Journal of Cancer and Chemotherapy","volume":"52 1","pages":"70-72"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143433070","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"[pT2 Gallbladder Cancer with Suspected Intrapancreatic Bile Duct Recurrence Four Years Postoperatively-A Case Report].","authors":"Shigeru Fujisaki, Motoi Takashina, Ryouichi Tomita, Kenichi Sakurai, Yukiyasu Okamura","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>We report a case of intrapancreatic bile duct solitary recurrence 4 years postoperatively for pT2 gallbladder cancer. A 58-year-old woman underwent laparoscopic cholecystectomy for a growing gallbladder polyp. Her histopathological findings included well-differentiated adenocarcinoma, pT2a, ly0, v0, ne0, pCM0, pEM0, R0. Consequently, gallbladder bed resection, extrahepatic bile duct resection, choledochojejunostomy, and lymph node dissection were performed. Following which, residual cancer was not reported. Postoperatively, abdominal computed tomography(CT)scans were performed at 6-month intervals. A 3-cm mass with poor contrast was observed in the pancreatic head 4 years postoperatively without main pancreatic duct dilation or pancreatic parenchymal atrophy, and the mass was considered as a recurrent nodule of gallbladder cancer. The recurrent mass could no longer be identified after three courses of GEM+CDDP combination therapy. Subsequently, the disease was determined to be curable, and a pancreaticoduodenectomy was performed. Her postoperative course was uneventful, and the patient was discharged after 30 days. A clearly demarcated white nodular mass measuring 5 mm in diameter was observed in the posterior part of the pancreas, which was a poorly differentiated adenocarcinoma. In this case, the tumor was macroscopically and histologically atypical for primary cancer and was considered a gallbladder cancer recurrence with its main site in the bile duct.</p>","PeriodicalId":35588,"journal":{"name":"Japanese Journal of Cancer and Chemotherapy","volume":"52 1","pages":"79-81"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143433706","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"[Conversion Surgery for Initially Unresectable Hepatocellular Carcinoma].","authors":"Takamichi Ishii, Tomoaki Yoh, Takahiro Nishio, Hiroto Nishino, Hidenobu Kojima, Satoshi Ogiso, Takayuki Anazawa, Kazuyuki Nagai, Yoichiro Uchida, Takashi Ito, Etsuro Hatano","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Conversion surgery means surgery for initially unresectable tumors which are converted to resectable tumors by multidisciplinary treatment. Since the introduction of highly effective drug therapies including immune checkpoint inhibitors for hepatocellular carcinoma(HCC), conversion surgery for HCC has become a common experience. Recently, the Japanese Expert Consensus 2023 have reported on the oncological criteria of resectability for HCC, allowing us to use common terms to describe unresectable HCC, which had been ambiguously defined in the past. HCC cases are classified into 3 criteria, based on the tumor number and size, the degree of vascular invasion, and the degree of extrahepatic involvement. The 3 criteria are R(resectable; oncological status for which surgery alone may offer clearly better survival outcomes compared to the other treatment), BR1(borderline resectable 1; oncological status for which surgical intervention as a part of multidisciplinary treatment may offer survival benefit), and BR2(borderline resectable 2; initially unsuitable for resection: oncological status for which efficacy of surgery is indeterminate and surgical indication should be carefully determined under the standard multidisciplinary management of HCC). Whether conversion surgery improves prognosis under the assumption that nonsurgical treatment such as drug therapy has been successful is a question for further investigation.</p>","PeriodicalId":35588,"journal":{"name":"Japanese Journal of Cancer and Chemotherapy","volume":"52 1","pages":"25-29"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143433692","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}