Purpose To investigate the efficacy and safety of zoledronic acid for the treatment of bone
metastases from breast cancer. Patients and Methods Women with bone metastases (N = 228) …

Purpose To determine the prevalence of use of complementary and alternative medicine
(CAM) by patients with cancer in Japan, and to compare the characteristics of CAM users …

Background. Whether video-assisted thoracic surgery (VATS) improves postoperative
pulmonary function is still controversial. We compared postoperative pulmonary function after …

Purpose The purpose of this study was to examine the relation between cancer cellularity
and the apparent diffusion coefficient (ADC) value using diffusion-weighted magnetic …

BACKGROUND: The aim of this study was to identify the clinical characteristics of multiple
primary adenocarcinomas and to evaluate the efficacy of surgical treatments. METHODS: …

Purpose: To identify the readily available prognostic factors most helpful in predicting
survival and to construct and validate a prognostic index for metastatic breast cancer (MBC) …

BACKGROUND: With recent advances in low-dose helical computed tomography (CT),
detection of ground-glass opacity (GGO) has increased. The aim of this study was to correlate …

Background The local recurrence rate of phyllodes tumors is high and ensuring a sufficient
surgical margin is considered important for local control. However, the preoperative …

It is well known that immunosuppression may contribute to the progression and
chemotherapy-resistance of cancer. Recent studies have demonstrated that lymphocytes with the …

BACKGROUND The prevalence of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) is
increasing worldwide because of the growing public interest in natural or holistic therapies and …