A 69-year-old man was referred to our institution for treatment of gastric cancer. Type 2 gastric cancer was found on the anterior wall of the lower body of the stomach.The patient underwent distal gastrectomy, D2 lymph node dissection, and Roux-en-Y reconstruction with curative resection. The tumor was diagnosed as a small cell carcinoma of the stomach. Recurrence occurred in the lung after su...

Abstract Objective To explored the prognostic value of pretreatment serum fibrinogen level in young patients with small cell lung cancer (SCLC). Methods The concentrations 183 (<50 years old) SCLC were measured. association baseline and clinical outcome was analyzed by survival analysis. Results Hyperfibrinogenemia significantly associated American Veterans Administration Lung Study Group st...

Video-assisted thoracic surgery (VATS) provides less postoperative pain, preservation of the immune response and shorter recovery period, compared with thoracotomy. However, many patients complain of postoperative pain and paresthesia because VATS requires 3 or 4 incisions including a utility incision of 3-5 cm. To overcome this problem, single incision thoracoscopic surgery has emerged; this t...

Standard operations for lung cancer patients are generally accepted as performing lobectomy or pneumonectomy on the tumor bearing lung and ipsilateral hilar and mediastinal lymphadenectomy including subcarinal lymph nodes. Recently, minimally invasive surgery or limited resection (for example, those via VATS) has ruled our time in the field of surgery considering especially from the point of QO...

BACKGROUND: Spinal metastases of patients with advanced stage lung cancer are an important target for palliative therapy, because their incidence is high, and they often cause severe symptoms and worsen the quality of life. Surgery is one of the most effective treatment options, but the indication of surgery is unclear as the procedure is invasive and patients with spinal metastasis have a rath...

Fifty-three lung masses were found in 51 (16%) of 325 patients who underwent lung volume reduction surgery. This included 11 non-small cell lung cancers and 42 benign lung masses. Eleven patients (mean age, 69.4 years) underwent a combined lung volume reduction surgery and resection of clinical stage I lung cancers (lymph node dissection with either lobectomy [3] or wedge resection [8]). There ...

PURPOSE Growing number of elderly lung cancer patients reflecting a lengthening life span has become a serious problem. Purpose of this study was to elucidate the short and long-term outcome of the surgery for octogenarians, and to evaluate the role of lung cancer surgery for this high age group. METHODS The patients with lung cancer aged 80 years or more who underwent the surgery at our inst...

introduction radon is a colorless and tasteless gas which exists in most soils. it is a substance that poses a potential risk for lung cancer in case a person is exposed to high levels over long periods of time. the environmental protection agency (epa) estimates that 90% of lung cancers per year are caused by radon. the aim of this paper is to estimate the absorbed doses of 222rn by mcnpx simu...

To understand the size of the aging population in the United States, the imminent need to include the elderly in clinical studies on lung cancer, and the safe potential of video-assisted thoracic surgery, and to change awareness of the elderly's need for and ability to undergo treatment for lung cancer, clinical studies of video-assisted thoracic surgery in patients > or = 70 years of age are p...

The purpose of this study is to evaluate cytokine expression by peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMC) from stage I lung cancer patients and to confirm these expression patterns by exposing PBMCs to lung cancer cells in vitro. Five altered cytokines in stage I lung cancer patients (CCL3, IL8, IL1β, CXCL10, sIL2Rα) were identified in plasma from subjects (n = 15) before and after resection us...