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Relapsing cytokine release syndrome in a patient with metastatic renal cell carcinoma treated with pembrolizumab and axitinib therapy
As immune checkpoint inhibitors become more widely available, the optimal management of immune-related adverse events (irAEs) is becoming increasingly important. Although irAEs are diverse, reports on cytokine...
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Open AccessFinal efficacy and safety results and biomarker analysis of a phase 2 study of cabozantinib in Japanese patients with advanced renal cell carcinoma
Cabozantinib was established as the standard of care for the treatment of patients with renal cell carcinoma (RCC) whose disease had progressed after vascular endothelial growth factor receptor tyrosine kinase...
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Real-world efficacy and safety of nivolumab plus ipilimumab in untreated metastatic renal cell carcinoma, and the impact of previous nephrectomy on clinical outcome: Japanese multi-institutional retrospective study
In metastatic renal-cell carcinoma (mRCC), recent clinical trials have shown efficacy of first-line combination therapy, as evidenced by better clinical outcome over target therapy. However, there are insuffic...
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Open AccessCorrection to: Real-world use of enzalutamide in men with nonmetastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer in Japan
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Open AccessReal-world use of enzalutamide in men with nonmetastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer in Japan
The purpose of the study is to evaluate real-world effectiveness and safety of enzalutamide in men with nonmetastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer (nmCRPC) in Japan.
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The prognostic impact of immune-related adverse events in metastatic renal cell carcinoma patients treated with nivolumab: a real-world multi-institutional retrospective study
Recent studies have shown that immune-related adverse events (irAEs) caused by immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICIs) were correlated with favorable clinical outcome in patients with melanoma. However, in metasta...
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Clinical indicators for predicting prognosis after radium-223 administration in castration-resistant prostate cancer with bone metastases
Radium-223 (Ra-223) is a targeted alpha therapy that has been shown to prolong overall survival (OS) in patients with metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer (mCRPC) with bone metastases. However, prog...
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Open AccessPembrolizumab versus chemotherapy in recurrent, advanced urothelial cancer in Japanese patients: a subgroup analysis of the phase 3 KEYNOTE-045 trial
The open-label, randomized, active-controlled KEYNOTE-045 study (NCT02256436) showed that second-line pembrolizumab significantly improved overall survival (OS) of patients with advanced/metastatic urothelial ...
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Desperation surgery for a chemorefractory lung lesion in a patient with an extragonadal germ cell tumor
We report a case of recurrent and chemorefractory extragonadal germ cell tumor successfully treated with desperation surgery. A 25-year-old man presented with a mediastinal tumor with multiple lung metastases....
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Weekly, low-dose docetaxel combined with estramustine for Japanese castration-resistant prostate cancer: its efficacy and safety profile compared with tri-weekly standard-dose treatment
We retrospectively investigated the efficacy and safety profile of weekly low-dose docetaxel (DTX) with estramustine in comparison with triweekly standard-dose DTX treatment for Japanese patients with castrati...
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Genetic polymorphisms of CYP17A1 in steroidogenesis pathway are associated with risk of progression to castration-resistant prostate cancer in Japanese men receiving androgen deprivation therapy
Hormone ablation therapy is the standard therapy for prostate cancer; however, there are large individual differences in the duration of response to the therapy. We investigated, in this retrospective multicen...
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Weekly low-dose docetaxel combined with estramustine and dexamethasone for Japanese patients with metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer
A low-dose chemotherapy consisting of docetaxel, estramustine and dexamethasone was investigated for its beneficial effect and feasibility in Japanese patients with metastatic castration-resistant prostate can...
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Prolonged treatment with three-weekly docetaxel plus daily prednisolone for metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer: a multicenter, phase II, open-label, non-comparative, extension study in Japan
There are few reports of long-term treatment with docetaxel in castration-resistant prostate cancer (CRPC) because of the limit of a maximum of ten cycles of treatment in TAX327 showing a survival benefit. The...
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Pulmonary metastasectomy in patients with renal cell carcinoma: a single-institution experience
Pulmonary metastasectomy in patients with renal cell carcinoma (RCC) remains controversial. The purpose of our analysis was to explore the outcome of patients with RCC who underwent pulmonary metastasectomy at...
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The expression of thymidine phosphorylase is a prognostic predictor for the intravesical recurrence of superficial bladder cancer
Thymidine phosphorylase (TP), also known as platelet-derived endothelial cell growth factor, has been implicated in the angiogenesis of bladder cancer. The aim of this study is to investigate the association b...