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    High serum proteinase-3 levels predict poor progression-free survival and lower efficacy of bevacizumab in metastatic colorectal cancer

    To improve the prognosis of patients with metastatic colorectal cancer (mCRC), investigating predictive biomarkers of their prognosis and chemotherapeutic responsiveness is necessary. This study aimed to analy...

    Kei Furuya, Masao Nakajima, Ryouichi Tsunedomi, Yuki Nakagami, Ming Xu in BMC Cancer (2024)

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    CD4 and FOXP3 as predictive markers for the recurrence of T3/T4a stage II colorectal cancer: applying a novel discrete Bayes decision rule

    We recently reported the relapse-free survival (RFS) significance of the combination of CD4+ and forkhead box P3+ (FOXP3) T-cell densities identified by immunohistochemistry in patients with stage I, II, and III ...

    Yuki Nakagami, Shoichi Hazama, Nobuaki Suzuki, Shin Yoshida in BMC Cancer (2022)

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    Elevated expression of RAB3B plays important roles in chemoresistance and metastatic potential of hepatoma cells

    Cancer stem cells (CSCs) are thought to play important roles in carcinogenesis, recurrence, metastasis, and therapy-resistance. We have successfully induced cancer stem-like sphere cells (CSLCs) which possess ...

    Ryouichi Tsunedomi, Kiyoshi Yoshimura, Yuta Kimura, Mitsuo Nishiyama in BMC Cancer (2022)

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    Correction to: Novel adjuvant dendritic cell therapy with transfection of heat-shock protein 70 messenger RNA for patients with hepatocellular carcinoma: a phase I/II prospective randomized controlled clinical trial

    The original article can be found onlineThe original article can be found online

    Hiroto Matsui, Shoichi Hazama, Masao Nakajima, Ming Xu in Cancer Immunology, Immunotherapy (2021)

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    A high number of PD-L1+ CD14+ monocytes in peripheral blood is correlated with shorter survival in patients receiving immune checkpoint inhibitors

    Targeting of anti-programmed cell death protein-1 (PD-1) and anti-programmed death-ligand 1 (PD-L1) is a standard therapeutic strategy for various cancers. The aim of the present study was to investigate the p...

    Kiyohiro Ando, Kazuyuki Hamada, Midori Shida in Cancer Immunology, Immunotherapy (2021)

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    A phase I study of multi-HLA-binding peptides derived from heat shock protein 70/glypican-3 and a novel combination adjuvant of hLAG-3Ig and Poly-ICLC for patients with metastatic gastrointestinal cancers: YNP01 trial

    This phase I study aimed to evaluate the safety, peptide-specific immune responses, and anti-tumor effects of a novel vaccination therapy comprising multi-HLA-binding heat shock protein (HSP) 70/glypican-3 (GP...

    Masao Nakajima, Shoichi Hazama, Koji Tamada in Cancer Immunology, Immunotherapy (2020)

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    Serum LOX-1 is a novel prognostic biomarker of colorectal cancer

    Colorectal cancer is the third most common cancer worldwide. If biomarkers can be identified in liquid biopsy, diagnosis and treatment can be optimized even when cancerous tissues are not available. The purpos...

    Chiyo Nakashima-Nakasuga, Shoichi Hazama in International Journal of Clinical Oncology (2020)

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    Correction: Intratumoural-infiltrating CD4 + and FOXP3 + T cells as strong positive predictive markers for the prognosis of resectable colorectal cancer

    An amendment to this paper has been published and can be accessed via a link at the top of the paper.

    Taichi Kuwahara, Shoichi Hazama, Nobuaki Suzuki, Shin Yoshida in British Journal of Cancer (2019)

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    Intratumoural-infiltrating CD4 + and FOXP3 + T cells as strong positive predictive markers for the prognosis of resectable colorectal cancer

    CD3 +  and CD8 + T-cell infiltration were reported as positive predictive markers of survival in colorectal cancer (CRC) patients. Here, we demonstrate the prognostic significance of CD4 + and FOXP3 + T-cell d...

    Taichi Kuwahara, Shoichi Hazama, Nobuaki Suzuki, Shin Yoshida in British Journal of Cancer (2019)

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    A phase II, multicenter, single-arm study of tri-weekly low-dose nanoparticle albumin-bound paclitaxel chemotherapy for patients with metastatic or recurrent breast cancer

    Nanoparticle albumin-bound (nab)-paclitaxel is a solvent-free formulation of paclitaxel that is bound to albumin and has demonstrated improved progression free survival in previous studies of breast cancer. Ho...

    Shigeru Yamamoto, Noriko Maeda, Yukiko Nagashima, Hidefumi Kubo, Yoko Sato in Breast Cancer (2017)

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    Predictive biomarkers for the efficacy of peptide vaccine treatment: based on the results of a phase II study on advanced pancreatic cancer

    The purpose of the present study was to explore novel biomarkers that can predict the clinical outcome of patients before treatment or during vaccination. These would be useful for the selection of appropriate...

    Yoshitaro Shindo, Shoichi Hazama in Journal of Experimental & Clinical Cancer … (2017)

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    Dendritic cells transfected with heat-shock protein 70 messenger RNA for patients with hepatitis C virus-related hepatocellular carcinoma: a phase 1 dose escalation clinical trial

    We previously reported overexpression of heat-shock protein (HSP) 70 in hepatitis C virus (HCV)-related hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) using proteomic profiling and immunohistochemical staining (IHS). This su...

    Yoshinari Maeda, Kiyoshi Yoshimura, Hiroto Matsui in Cancer Immunology, Immunotherapy (2015)