Y Yamashita, F Moriyasu, T Tamada, T Kawasaki, S Ono, T Kimura, K Kajimura, H Someda, N Hamato, H Uchino
{"title":"[Evaluation of photodynamic therapy using pheophorbide-a as a photosensitizer].","authors":"Y Yamashita, F Moriyasu, T Tamada, T Kawasaki, S Ono, T Kimura, K Kajimura, H Someda, N Hamato, H Uchino","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Intra-tumoral concentrations of pheophorbide-a, a new photosensitizer, were measured by high-performance liquid chromatography after administration of pheophorbide-a to nude mice (BALB/c-nu) that had been implanted with human hepatocellular carcinoma. The results were as follows: 1) 0.009 +/- 0.007 microgram/g tissue in 1 mg/kg body p.o. administration group, 2) 0.22 +/- 0.06 microgram/g tissue in 250 mg/kg body p.o. administration group, 3) 0.85 +/- 0.14 microgram/g tissue in 5 mg/kg body intra-peritoneal administration group, 4) 3.42 +/- 2.84 microgram/g tissue in not-injected side, and 116 +/- 24 microgram/g tissue in injected side of 200 micrograms intra-tumoral administration group. Tumors in each group were irradiated using an Nd:YAG laser (Q-switch; mean power 0.5 W, duration 10 min.). Areas of tumor necrosis were larger than in the control group only in the intra-tumoral administration group. These results suggest that no photodynamic reaction occurs if the intra-tumoral pheophorbide-a concentration is less than 0.85 microgram/g tissue.</p>","PeriodicalId":76232,"journal":{"name":"Nihon Gan Chiryo Gakkai shi","volume":"25 6","pages":"1123-8"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1990-06-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"13321658","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}
T Tanaka, T Iwasaka, Y Hayashi, T Hachisuga, M Yokoyama, Y Ohkuma, N Matsuo, K Fukuda, H Sugimori
{"title":"[The clinical significance of serum sialyl SSEA-1 antigen in obstetrical and gynecological patients].","authors":"T Tanaka, T Iwasaka, Y Hayashi, T Hachisuga, M Yokoyama, Y Ohkuma, N Matsuo, K Fukuda, H Sugimori","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>To evaluate the clinical significance of serum SSEA-1 level, the antigen level was measured in sera of obstetric and gynecologic patients. A positive rate was low in patients with endometriosis (9.1%), myoma uteri (0%), benign ovarian tumor (15%), cervical squamous cell carcinoma (14%) and endometrial carcinoma (18%). In this series of study, interest was that positive cases in benign ovarian tumor group were all patients with dermoid cyst. On the other hand, a high positive rate was observed among the patients with cervical adenocarcinoma (50%), primary ovarian malignancies (55%) and secondary ovarian malignancies (50%). Among the patients with ovarian malignancies, serum sialyl SSEA-1 level significantly increased according to clinical stage. In patients with positive serum sialyl SSEA-1, rising or falling of the serum level of this antigen correlated well with progression or regression of the disease. Measurement of serum CA125 was also performed in patients with ovarian malignancies, which showed a significantly higher positive rate (96%) and revealed that this antigen has no correlation with sialyl SSEA-1. A low positive rate of serum sialyl SSEA-1 level (9.1%) was observed in gravidas, while a higher positive rate (43%) in puerperas, especially within three days after parturition. This evidence should be considered when serum sialyl SSEA-1 antigen is measured as tumor marker. All these observations suggest that the measurement of serum sialyl SSEA-1 level is useful not only in the diagnosis of ovarian malignancies but for the judgment of the effect of treatment and the search for their recurrences.</p>","PeriodicalId":76232,"journal":{"name":"Nihon Gan Chiryo Gakkai shi","volume":"25 6","pages":"1157-61"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1990-06-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"13133955","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}
S Okada, K Ohshima, T Onai, M Umahara, S Kobayashi, H Ishihara
{"title":"[A long survived case of malignant pheochromocytoma treated with alpha-methyl-p-tyrosine and midaglizol (DG-5128)].","authors":"S Okada, K Ohshima, T Onai, M Umahara, S Kobayashi, H Ishihara","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Survival period of malignant pheochromocytoma treated only conservatively is reported to be less than one year by T. Sato. A patient of malignant pheochromocytoma with liver metastasis has been treated with alpha-methyl-p-tyrosine (alpha MPT), tyrosine hydroxylase inhibitor, in the last 5 years. Catecholamine levels markedly decreased and he has a long survival time. He lives over 17 years from the detection of malignant pheochromocytoma. alpha MPT was considered to have a role to protect a patient from cardiomyopathy induced by hyper-catecholaminemia and to have the action of inhibiting the growth of this tumor. The growth of this tumor was very slow. Since this case had insulin independent diabetes mellitus, insulin therapy was applied, however, blood glucose level was not controlled well. Then we tried midaglizol (DG-5128), alpha 2-adrenoceptor antagonist, to control diabetes mellitus and a sufficient control was obtained. C-peptide level in urine was increased concomitant with decrease of blood glucose. This fact suggested that insulin secretion was improved. It is well known that catecholamine, especially noradrenaline has an inhibiting action on insulin secretion from beta cell. This action was appeared through alpha 2-adrenergic receptor. DG-5128 has an action as alpha 2-adrenoceptor antagonist. We think an inhibiting action on insulin secretion of catecholamine was diminished through its action as adrenoceptor antagonist. Kawazu et al. reported that catecholamine levels, heart rate and blood pressure did not change by DG-5128 administration in healthy subjects. In this patient, no change was appeared either. No major complication was observed during this treatment.</p>","PeriodicalId":76232,"journal":{"name":"Nihon Gan Chiryo Gakkai shi","volume":"25 6","pages":"1221-5"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1990-06-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"13133956","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}
T Takayasu, K Ozawa, A Maki, K Ino, Y Yamaoka, Y Shimahara, K Mori, K Tanaka, K Kumada
{"title":"[Clinical investigation of hepatectomies for hepatocellular carcinoma--significance of extended hepatectomy for advanced hepatocellular carcinoma].","authors":"T Takayasu, K Ozawa, A Maki, K Ino, Y Yamaoka, Y Shimahara, K Mori, K Tanaka, K Kumada","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Although the diagnostic methods for hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) are now being improved, there are still many cases detected at advanced stage. We, based on the Redox theory and using a technique of vascular surgery and liver transplantation, made it possible to perform the extended hepatectomy more actively even in the advanced cases which were previously considered to be in-operable. We report these extended hepatectomies in this paper. From January 1985 to August 1989, we performed 263 hepatectomies for HCC. Out of these 263 cases, we examined 208 cases which had an interval more than three months from the time of the operation and had exact follow-up data at the end of August 1989. There are 57 extended hepatectomies and they consist of 4 groups as follows. 1) Multiple group (14 cases): the operation for the cases with multiple daughter nodules in both lobes besides the main tumor. 2) Thrombus group (30 cases): the operation for the cases with portal tumor thrombus in the first branch or the main trunk of portal vein. 3) IVC group (4 cases): the operation adding resection and reconstruction of IVC because tumor was hardly fixed to the wall of IVC. 4) Recurrence group (9 cases): the operation for hepatic recurrence. Six cases of the Multiple group survived more than one year and one case is still alive more than two years after surgery. The 6-months, 1-year and 2-year cumulative survival rates of the Multiple group are 50.5%, 38.3%, and 8.5% respectively and these results are better than other reports. Forty-three hepatic recurrences were observed in 138 cases whose tumor was completely resected macroscopically.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)</p>","PeriodicalId":76232,"journal":{"name":"Nihon Gan Chiryo Gakkai shi","volume":"25 6","pages":"1162-71"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1990-06-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"13321659","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":"[Therapeutic efficacy of postoperative irradiation on carcinoma of the breast].","authors":"S Mikuriya, K Konoeda, K Hatano, T Shiina","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>From July 1973 to October 1983, 77 patients received mastectomy followed by postoperative irradiation at National Medical Center Hospital. The patients were classified as follows: 9 cases as stage I, 30 cases as stage II, 28 cases as stage IIIa, 7 cases as stage IIIb and 2 cases as stage IV. Irradiation fields were the parasternal and supraclavicular region. The axis of the irradiation fields to parasternal and supraclavicular regions were set up at 3.5 cm from the surface of the body and they were irradiated separately. The irradiation fields were about 0.5 cm apart from each other. Parasternal region contained bilateral parasternal lymphnodes. In some cases, the centersplit was used to prevent the radiation myelopathy. Prophylactic irradiation to axilla was performed by electron beam from October 1974 to September 1977. Prophylactic irradiation to chest wall has not been done since 1973. The five and ten years survival rates of stage II were 93.2% and 86.3%, stage IIIa were 61.9% and 55. 7%, Stage IIIb were 71.4% and 35.7%. The rate of the local recurrence at the supraclavicular region was 0% as stage I, 6.7% as stage II, 0% as stage IIIa and 14.3% as stage IIIb. Among the cases with regional lymphnode involvement at the time of mastectomy, the rate of local recurrence at the supraclavicular region was 6.7% in prophylactic irradiation group and it was significantly lower than in non-prophylactic irradiation group (11.5%) (p less than 0.05). The rate of local recurrence to chest wall was 0% as stage I, 6.7% as stage II, 8.0% as stage IIIa and 42.9% as stage IIIb.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)</p>","PeriodicalId":76232,"journal":{"name":"Nihon Gan Chiryo Gakkai shi","volume":"25 6","pages":"1215-20"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1990-06-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"13545999","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}
T Oshitani, K Okada, T Kushima, T Suematsu, K Obayashi, Y Hirata, Y Takada, T Ishida, M Yoshida, I Narabayashi
{"title":"[Clinical evaluation of sodium alginate on oral mucositis associated with radiotherapy].","authors":"T Oshitani, K Okada, T Kushima, T Suematsu, K Obayashi, Y Hirata, Y Takada, T Ishida, M Yoshida, I Narabayashi","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>We evaluated the effect of sodium alginate on 39 patients with oral mucositis associated with radiotherapy. Sodium alginate was administered during radiotherapy to 17 patients with head and neck cancer. Compared with 22 patients without administration, sodium alginate reduced the pain and the erosion of oral mucosa significantly. Consequently the interval of radiotherapy was shortened. It is, therefore, expected that the effect of radiotherapy improves by the administration of sodium alginate.</p>","PeriodicalId":76232,"journal":{"name":"Nihon Gan Chiryo Gakkai shi","volume":"25 6","pages":"1129-37"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1990-06-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"13548203","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}
Y Kondo, I Gorai, T Yanagibashi, T Yanagisawa, F Hirahara, T Ohtsuka, A Kimura, T Uemura, H Minaguchi, S Kikyo
{"title":"[Recurrence of endometrial cancer and its pathological factors].","authors":"Y Kondo, I Gorai, T Yanagibashi, T Yanagisawa, F Hirahara, T Ohtsuka, A Kimura, T Uemura, H Minaguchi, S Kikyo","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The number of patients with uterine endometrial cancer has increased in recent years in Japan. The studies on the prognostic factors of endometrial cancer, however, have not been made in detail as compared with those on the prognostic factors of cervical cancers. We have therefore investigated retrospectively the prognoses of 94 cases with endometrial cancer treated in our clinic from 1973 to 1984. Out of 31 cases (32.9%) with recurrence, 13 cases were at the Stage I and II, and the recurrence ratios were 11.4% for Stage Ia, 18.2% for Stage Ib and 31.3% for Stage II. The prognosis of endometrial carcinoma appears to depend on the endocervical involvement of the cancer. Five prognostic factors for Stage I and II endometrial cancers analyzed here are as follows; (1) histologic differentiation (grade), (2) size (diameter) of the primary tumor, (3) myometrial invasion, (4) vascular invasion, (5) lymphnode metastasis. (1) The recurrence ratio was 15.0% in the well differentiated (Grade 1) group, 25.0% in the moderately differentiated (Grade 2) group, 27.3% in the poorly differentiated (Grade 3) group, and 12.5% in adenoacanthoma. (2) The ratio of recurrence was 2.9% with less than 3 cm diameter, 24% with 3-6 cm diameter, and 30% with greater than 6 cm diameter in tumor size. (3) The ratio of recurrence was 2.9% with less than 1/3, 24% with 1/3-2/3, and 30% with greater than 2/3 myometrial invasion. (4) The ratio of recurrence was 43.8% with vascular invasion, and 5.6% without it. (5) The ratio of recurrence was 75% with lymphnode metastasis, and 8.8% without it.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)</p>","PeriodicalId":76232,"journal":{"name":"Nihon Gan Chiryo Gakkai shi","volume":"25 6","pages":"1105-9"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1990-06-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"13548201","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":"[Evaluation of multidisciplinary treatment involving chemotherapy with cis-diamminedichloroplatinum, bleomycin (peplomycin) and 5-fluorouracil for advanced esophageal carcinoma].","authors":"J Nakamura, H Nasu, O Masamune, Y Inoue","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Twelve patients with unresectable squamous cell carcinoma of the esophagus were treated with a combination chemotherapy regimen consisting of cis-diamminedichloroplatinum (CDDP), bleomycin (BLM) or peplomycin (PEP), and 5-fluorouracil (5-FU). Ten of them received radiation therapy additionally. CDDP was administered once every 4 weeks at a dose of 50 mg/m2. Methylprednisolone of 250 mg was given intravenously 4 times at the same day with infusion of CDDP. BLM or PEP was administered intravenously at a dose of 20 mg/m2 every 2 weeks and 5-FU was administered at a dose of 330 mg/m2 on days 1-5, 15-19, and afterwards every 4 weeks. All patients received at least two courses of chemotherapy. All of them were evaluable. Complete and partial responses were obtained in one and eight cases, respectively. Responsive rate was 75.0%. The median duration of response was 17.0 weeks. The median duration of survival was 44.0 weeks in all patients, 46.1 weeks in responders and 17.9 weeks in non-responders. Nausea, vomiting, leucopenia, fever, nephrotoxicity and radiation esophagitis were observed as side effects but most of them were mild and well tolerated. In conclusion, this regimen was considered to be very useful as the chemotherapy for primary esophageal carcinoma.</p>","PeriodicalId":76232,"journal":{"name":"Nihon Gan Chiryo Gakkai shi","volume":"25 5","pages":"939-45"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1990-05-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"12861443","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}
Y Kinashi, Y Nagata, M Abe, T Honda, I Takai, S Tai, T Mori
{"title":"[Transcatheter intra-arterial injection of combination drugs in case of advanced uterine cervical cancer].","authors":"Y Kinashi, Y Nagata, M Abe, T Honda, I Takai, S Tai, T Mori","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>A total of 10 uterine cervical cancer patients (stage IIb 2, stage IIIb 6, stage IVb 2) were treated two times with selective intra-arterial injection of combined drugs of CDDP, ADR, 5-FU, MMC before operation or radiation therapy. In all patients, the tumor size was reduced macroscopically as well as on MR images. The tumor marker SCC was decreased after TAI. In 7 cases (IIb 2, IIIb 4, IVb 1) surgical treatment was made about 1 month after TAI. Histological examinations revealed that the cancer invasion markedly reduced and no malignant cells found in 3 patients.</p>","PeriodicalId":76232,"journal":{"name":"Nihon Gan Chiryo Gakkai shi","volume":"25 5","pages":"946-51"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1990-05-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"13273097","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}
M Uchida, K Kamiya, T Yoshimura, K Sasaki, H Tsutani, T Nakamura, D H Ho
{"title":"[Activities of enzymes converting 5-fluorouracil to 5-fluorouridine-5' monophosphate and 5-fluorodeoxyuridine-5' monophosphate in subcultured cell lines and solid tumor tissues].","authors":"M Uchida, K Kamiya, T Yoshimura, K Sasaki, H Tsutani, T Nakamura, D H Ho","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The activities of five enzymes, orotate phosphoribosyltransferase (OPRTase), uridine kinase (UR kinase), thymidine kinase (TdR kinase), uridine phosphorylase (UR Prylase) and thymidine phosphorylase (TdR Prylase), were examined in subcultured human acute leukemia cell lines (HL-60, CCRF-CEM), subcultured human solid tumor cell lines (Colo-205, HeLa-S3) and human cancerous tissues with a view to compare the activation of 5-fluorouracil in them. There was no significant difference in the activity of any enzyme between HL-60 and CCRF-CEM, Colo-205 and HeLa-S3, and human lung cancerous tissue and human colon cancerous tissue. Compared between the acute leukemia cell lines and the solid tumor cell lines, the UR kinase activity was high in both cell lines. The OPRTase and UR Prylase activities were low in the solid tumor cell lines. In the cancerous tissues, both the UR kinase and TdR kinase activities were low, but the UR Prylase and TdR Prylase activities were markedly high. The results suggest that the intracellular activation of 5-fluorouracil varies with different human cancerous cells. When the anti-cancer activity of 5-fluorouracil is tested in vitro, the difference of fluoropyrimidine metabolism in subcultured cell lines from that in the cancerous tissue should be taken in account.</p>","PeriodicalId":76232,"journal":{"name":"Nihon Gan Chiryo Gakkai shi","volume":"25 5","pages":"990-6"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1990-05-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"13321203","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}