• Journal of Gastric Cancer
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• 제9권3호
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• pp.128-135
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• 2009

목적: 동시성 및 이시성 간전이 위암환자들을 대상으로 임상병리학적 특성 및 예후의 차이에 대하여 알아보고 치료 방법에 따른 예후에 대하여 알아보고자 하였다. 대상 및 방법: 1992년 6월부터 2006년 12월까지 한양대학교병원 외과예서 치료받은 위암 환자 중 간전이가 발견된 67명의 환자를 대상으로 임상병리학적 특징 및 치료 방법에 대하여 후향적 분석을 시행하였다. 결과: 두 군의 임상병리학적 특성에 대한 비교에서 림프관 침윤 여부(P=0.041)와 혈관 침윤 여부(P=0.036)가 동시성군에서 유의하게 많았다. 전체 간전이 위암환자의 1년 생존율과 중앙생존기간은 38.9%, 9.2개월이며 동시성 간전이군에서는 30.9%. 9.2개월이었고 이시성 간전이군에서는 44.5%, 9.7개월로 두 군 사이에 통계학적으로 유의한 차이는 없었다(P=0.436). 치료 방법을 수술 혹은 영상의학적 중재술 등의 국소적 치료와 전신적 항암화학치료를 병행한 경우, 전신적 항암화학치료만 받은 경우, 치료 받지 않은 경우 등 세 가지로 나누었을 때 동시성 간전이군과 이시성 간전이군 사이에 치료 방법의 차이는 없었으며 두 군 모두에서 국소적 치료를 전신적 치료와 병행하였을 경우 생존율이 높았다(P<0.001). 결론: 간전이 위암에 있어서 간전이 병소의 발생 시점에 따른 예후의 차이는 없을 것으로 생각한다. 또한 간전이 발견 시점과 관계 없이 적응 예가 되는 경우 수술적 치료나 영상의학적 중재술 등의 적극적인 치료가 환자의 예후 향상에 기여할 수 있겠다.

• 대한한방내과학회지
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• 제37권1호
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• pp.77-89
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• 2016

Objectives: The aim of this study was to develop a standard instrument of pattern identification and evaluation for chemotherapy-induced peripheral neuropathy (CIPN).Methods: The advisory committee for this study was organized by 12 professors of traditional Korean medicine from the Korean Association of Traditional Oncology. The items and structure of the instrument were designed based on a review of previous publications. We revised the instrument in consultation with the advisory committee and received additional advice via email.Results: We divided the symptoms and signs of CIPN into four pattern identifications: wind arthralgia (風痺), cold arthralgia (寒痺), dampness arthralgia (濕痺), and arthralgia of the deficiency type (虛痺). We obtained the mean weights to reflect the standard deviations from each symptom of the four pattern identifications, which were scored on a 5-point scale by the advisor committee. After we obtained the answers to discrimination between variable symptoms (變症) and ordinary symptoms (素症) from the 12 experts, we gained the final weight from the combination of the ratio of pattern identification to the number of total answers of the advisory committee and the mean weight.Conclusions: The Instrument on Pattern Identification and Evaluation for CIPN was developed through a discussion between 12 experts. There was a limitation that the validity and reliability of this instrument have not been proven. However, the significance of this study was that it is the first Instrument on Pattern Identification and Evaluation aimed at assessing CIPN in traditional Korean medicine.

• 동의생리병리학회지
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• 제28권2호
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• pp.238-242
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• 2014

Here we described 2 cancer patients treated by acupuncture for abdominal pain as a complication of bowel obstruction. The patient 1, 43-year-old man was treated with surgery, radiotherapy and chemotherapy for rectal cancer. Two years after surgery, he complained of acute abdominal pain due to small bowel adhesion band. Bowel obstruction and symptoms were not improved by conservative therapy like as fasting, keeping Levin tube, and fluid therapy. 4 months later, he could eat a little rice water, but ileus and abdominal pain persisted despite of applying opiod drug and patch. Got started on acupuncture, electroacupuncture(ST-36) and moxa treatment, pain was relived gradually. He could stop opioids 1 month later and ileus was improved after acupuncture therapy for 2 months. The patient 2, 65-year-old woman got hepatectomy, cholecystectomy, and chemotherapy with cholangiocarcinoma. 6 months after surgery, she got laparotomy again for biopsy of new mass around ascending colon. She started eating after gas passing, but felt abdominal distension. Diffuse paralytic ileus was diagnosed by abdominal X-ray, and she got started conservative therapy. During ST-36 electroacupuncture therapy, symptoms like abdominal pain and distension were improved and could stop opiod patch. But eating aggravated ileus again and clinical finding of mechanical bowel obstruction was appeared. Based on these cases, acupuncture and moxa therapy could be helpful for improving abdominal pain and ileus, but possibility of malignant bowel obstruction should be considered especially in cancer patients.

• Asian Pacific Journal of Cancer Prevention
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• 제16권12호
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• pp.5075-5079
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• 2015

Background: Adverse effects of treatment prolongation beyond 8 weeks with radiotherapy for cervical cancer have been established. Clinical data also show that cisplatin increases the biologically effective dose of radiotherapy. However, there are no data on the effect of overall treatment time in patients with locally advanced cervical cancer treated with concomitant chemo-radiotherapy (CCRT) in an Indian population. The present study concerned the feasibility of concurrent chemotherapy and interspacing brachytherapy during the course of external radiotherapy to reduce the overall treatment time and compare the normal tissue toxicity and loco-regional control with a conventional schedule. Materials and Methods: Between January 2009 and March 2012 fifty patients registered in the Gynaecologic Oncology Clinic of Institute Rotary Cancer Hospital with locally advanced cervical cancer (FIGO stage IIB-IIIB) were enrolled. The patients were randomly allocated to treatment arms based on a computer generated random number. Arm I (n=25) treatment consisted of irradiation of the whole pelvis to a dose of 50 Gy in 27 fractions, and weekly cisplatin $40mg/m^2$. High dose rate intra-cavitary brachytherapy (HDR-ICBT) was performed after one week of completion of external beam radiotherapy (EBRT). The prescribed dose for each session was 7Gy to point A for three insertions at one week intervals. Arm II (n=25) treatment consisted of irradiation of the whole pelvis to a dose of 50 Gy in 27 fractions. Mention HDR-ICBT ICRT was performed after 40Gy and 7Gy was delivered to point A for three insertions (days 23, 30, 37) at one week intervals. Cisplatin $20mg/m^2/day$ was administered from D1-5 and D24-28. Overall treatment time was taken from first day of EBRT to last day of HDR brachytherapy. The overall loco-regional response rate (ORR) was determined at 3 and 6 months. Results: A total of 46 patients completed the planned treatment. The overall treatment times in arm I and arm II were $65{\pm}12$ and $48{\pm}4$ days, respectively (p=0.001). At three and six months of follow-up the ORR for arm I was 96% while that for arm II was 88%. No statistically significant difference was apparent between the two arms. The overall rate of grade ${\geq}3$ toxicity was numerically higher in arm I (n=7) than in arm II (n=4) though statistical significance was not reached. None of the predefined prognostic factors like age, performance status, baseline haemoglobin level, tumour size, lymph node involvement, stage or histopathological subtype showed any impact on outcome. Conclusions: In the setting of concurrent chemoradiotherapy a shorter treatment schedule of 48 days may be feasible by interspacing brachytherapy during external irradiation. The response rates and toxicities were comparable.

• Asian Pacific Journal of Cancer Prevention
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• 제17권7호
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• pp.3595-3600
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• 2016

Background: To investigate the association between preoperative pathological Ki-67 labeling index and serum tumor marker cancer antigen 15-3 (CA 15-3) with clinic-pathological parameters and treatment outcomes in early breast cancer. Materials and Methods: A retrospective study at 4 cancer centers in Saudi Arabia and Egypt was performed. Data were collected for female patients diagnosed with unilateral early breast cancer between March 2010 and October 2013. Cases treated with neoadjuvant chemotherapy (NACT) followed by surgery and radiotherapy were included. NACT included 6-8 cycles of anthracycline and taxane based regimens. Trastuzumab and hormonal treatments were added according to HER2 and hormone receptor status. Baseline serum CA15.3 and pathological Ki67 levels were evaluated and correlated with disease free survival (DFS) and overall survival (OS). Results: A total of 280 pts was included. The median age was 49 years (38-66 y) and median overall survival was 35 (20-38) months (mo). Estrogen receptors (ER), progesterone receptors (PR) and HER 2 receptors were positive in 233 (83.2%), 198 (70%) and 65 cases (23.2%), respectively. High preoperative Ki67 and CA15.3 were noted in 177 (63.2%) and 131 (46.8%). A total of 45 (16%) patients had distal or local recurrence and 24 (8.6%) died of their disease. Most of the relapsed cases had high preoperative Ki-67 (n=41, 91%) and CA15.3 (n=28, 62%) values. All of the patients who died had a high Ki-67 but CA15.3 was high in 9 (37%) only. Mean DFS/OS in patients with high preoperative Ki-67 was 32 months /32 months as compared to 37 months/35 months in those with normal Ki-67 (p<0.001). Correlation of preoperative CA15.3 and survival was statistically not significant. Conclusions:Preoperative Ki-67 can be a predictive and prognostic marker. Higher levels are associated with poor DFS and OS in patients with early BC.

• Journal of Korean Neurosurgical Society
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• 제54권5호
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• pp.399-404
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• 2013

Objective : The authors conducted a retrospective cohort study to determine prognostic factors and treatment outcomes of brain metastases (BM) from breast cancer (BC) after Gamma Knife radiosurgery (GKS). Methods : Pathologic and clinical features, and outcomes were analyzed in a cohort of 62 patients with BM from BC treated by GKS. The Kaplan- Meier method, the log-rank test, and Cox's proportional hazards model were used to assess prognostic factors. Results : Median survival after GKS was 73.0 weeks (95% confidence interval, 46.0-100.1). HER2+ [hazard ratio (HR) 0.441; p=0.045], Karnofsky performance scale (KPS) ${\geq}70$ (RR 0.416; p=0.050) and systemic chemotherapy after GKS (RR 0.282; p=0.001) were found to be a favorable prognostic factor of overall survival. Actuarial local control (LC) rate were $89.5{\pm}4.5%$ and $70.5{\pm}6.9%$ at 6 and 12 months after GKS, respectively. No prognostic factors were found to affect LC rate. Uni- and multivariate analysis revealed that the distant control (DC) rate was higher in patients with; a small number (${\leq}3$) of metastasis (HR 0.300; p=0.045), no known extracranial metastasis (p=0.013, log-rank test), or the HER2+ subtype (HR 0.267; p=0.027). Additional whole brain radiation therapy and metastasis volume were not found to be significantly associated with LC, DC, or overall survival. Conclusion : The treatment outcomes of patients with newly diagnosed BM from BC treated with GKS could be affected primarily by intrinsic subtype, KPS, and systemic chemotherapy. Therapeutic strategy and prognosis scoring system should be individualized based on considerations of intrinsic subtype in addition to traditionally known parameters related to stereotactic radiosurgery.

• 대한핵의학회지
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• 제37권3호
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• pp.171-177
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• 2003

목적: 악성 림프종 환자에서 골수 침범 여부를 평가하는 데 있어 FDG PET 스캔의 유용성을 장골 골수 생검에 비교하여 평가하고자 한다. 대상 및 방법: 73명의 림프종 환자(남:녀=43:30, 평균 연령 47세)를 대상으로 하였다. 이 중 69명은 비호지킨성 림프종이었으며 4명은 호지킨성 림프종이었다. FDG PET은53명의 환자에서 병기 결정을 목적으로, 20명에서는 치료후 효과 평가를 위해 시행되었다. 골수 침범에 대한 최종 판정은 두 검사의 일치성으로 판단되었으며 서로 다른 경우엔 장골 골수 생검, 방사선 검사 소견, 그리고 추적 검사에 의해 결정되었다. 결과: 73명중 54명(74%)에 있어 FDG PET과 장골 골수 검사 결과가 일치하였다. 두 검사 모두 음성인 환자는 54명중 47명이었으며 모두 양성인 환자는 7명이었다. 두 검사가 불일치 하는 경우는 19명 이었으며 이 중 6명은 골수 검사는 음성이었으나 FDG PET에서 양성 소견을 보였다. 반대로 12명에서는 FDG PET은 음성이었으나 장골 골수 생검상 골수 침범이 확인되었다. 불일치 결과를 보인 19명 중 마지막 1명의 환자에서는 골수 생검상 음성이었으나 FDG PET에서 위양성 소견을 보였다. 결론: FDG PET은 림프종 환자의 병기 결정에 있어 장골 골수 검사상 발견되지 않은 골수 침윤을 발견하는 데 도움이 되어 골수 생검에 보조적인 역할이 있었다. PET 검사상 횡격막 상하 림파절 침범과 다수의 골수 병변이 있는 환자에 있어 골수 생검의 필요성에 대해서는 치료 방침이나 예후를 변화시킬 수 있는지의 여부를 보는 연구가 필요하리라 생각된다. 치료후 효과를 판정하는 데 있어 FDG PET은 골수의 현미경학적 잔존 질환을 평가하는 데 있어 골수 생검을 대체하기는 어려울 것으로 사료된다.

• Journal of Gastric Cancer
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• 제15권4호
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• pp.238-245
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• 2015

Purpose: This study aimed to identify time-dependent prognostic factors and demonstrate the time-dependent effects of important prognostic factors in patients with advanced gastric cancer (AGC). Materials and Methods: We retrospectively evaluated 3,653 patients with AGC who underwent curative standard gastrectomy between 1991 and 2005 at the Korea Cancer Center Hospital. Multivariate survival analysis with Cox proportional hazards regression was used in the analysis. A non-proportionality test based on the Schoenfeld residuals (also known as partial residuals) was performed, and scaled Schoenfeld residuals were plotted over time for each covariate. Results: The multivariate analysis revealed that sex, depth of invasion, metastatic lymph node (LN) ratio, tumor size, and chemotherapy were time-dependent covariates violating the proportional hazards assumption. The prognostic effects (i.e., log of hazard ratio [LHR]) of the time-dependent covariates changed over time during follow-up, and the effects generally diminished with low slope (e.g., depth of invasion and tumor size), with gentle slope (e.g., metastatic LN ratio), or with steep slope (e.g., chemotherapy). Meanwhile, the LHR functions of some covariates (e.g., sex) crossed the zero reference line from positive (i.e., bad prognosis) to negative (i.e., good prognosis). Conclusions: The time-dependent effects of the prognostic factors of AGC are clearly demonstrated in this study. We can suggest that time-dependent effects are not an uncommon phenomenon among prognostic factors of AGC.

• Tuberculosis and Respiratory Diseases
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• 제43권6호
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• pp.1008-1018
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• 1996

저자들은 젊은 연령의 성인 남자들에서 종격동에 발생한 원발성 종격동 비정상피종성 생식세포종 3예를 수술적 제거 및 화학요법을 통해 치료하던 중 암표식인자의 의미있는 감소와 종양 크기의 감소를 얻었으나 종양 재발에 대한 보조 화학 요법후 합병증이 발생한 경험을 하였기에 이를 보고하는 바이다.

• 대한두경부종양학회지
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• 제34권2호
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• pp.11-15
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• 2018

Background/Objectives: The efficacy of radiotherapy alone versus chemoradiotherapy has been studied in patients with T2N0M0 laryngeal squamous cell carcinoma. Materials & Methods: Thirty nine patients with newly diagnosed T2N0M0 laryngeal squamous cell carcinoma were treated with either radiotherapy(RT group, 66-70Gy) or chemoradiotherapy(CRT group, cisplatin based concurrent chemoradiation with or without 2 cycles induction chemotherapy including cisplatin, $5-FU{\pm}$ docetaxel / radiation therapy same with above mentioned). The mean follow-up was 73.5 months. Results: The overall survival (OS), disease specific survival (DSS), disease free survival (DFS), and larynx preservation survival (LPS) at 5 years were 70%, 79%, 67%, and 71%. The complete response rate was 82.4% in RT group, and was 95.5% in CRT group. OS (57% vs 80%), DSS (69% vs 86%), DFS (52% vs 77%), and LPS (63% vs 77%) at 5 years were higher in CRT group than RT group, but it was not statistically significant. In subsite analysis, CRT group tends to improve DFS, compared to RT group, in glottic cancer (p=0.06). The toxicities were tolerable and no fatal case was observed in both groups. Conclusion: Chemoradiotherapy is effective as primary therapy for T2 laryngeal squamous cell carcinoma and showed manageable treatment induced toxicity.