Volume 50, Issue 7, July 2020

Treatment for hematological malignancies carries gonadal toxicity, so that the preservation of fertility should be considered in all patients in childhood, adolescence and young adulthood.

This review describes the present treatment options for endometrial cancer according to the risk of recurrence and the current evidence along with a history of the pertinent clinical trials.

This study highlighted that women and temporary employees were more vulnerable with job loss after cancer diagnosis.

The functional outcome following deltoid muscle resection in patients with soft tissue sarcoma was evaluated. If the rotator cuff is resected with deltoid muscle, satisfactory functional outcomes might not be obtained.

The present study explored MUC5AC in lung adenocarcinoma with mucin production. MUC5AC and its impact of prognosis in different mucinous subtypes are distinct. These findings strongly demonstrate the heterogeneity of lung adenocarcinoma with mucin production.

The newly developed Japanese version of MDASI-BT, validated linguistically and psychometrically, is a feasible and reliable patient-reported outcome questionnaire for the assessment of symptom severity and interference in brain tumor patients.

Bronchial sleeve lobectomy with additional methods is feasible for lung cancer treatment.

This stratified meta-analysis demonstrates that PD-L1 levels have important predictive value in determining response to immunotherapy. However, patients with low levels still experience improved survival with immunotherapy compared with standard therapy.

In this Japanese subpopulation analysis of LATITUDE, addition of abiraterone acetate plus prednisone to androgen-deprivation therapy demonstrated favorable long-term efficacy and safety in patients with high-risk metastatic hormone-naïve prostate cancer.

This phase III trial aims to confirm the non-inferiority of discontinuation versus continuation of treatment with immune checkpoint inhibitors, including PD-1 pathway inhibitors, for advanced/recurrent non-small-cell lung patients.

We report a novel germline BMPR1A variant, c.72_73delGA, in a Japanese family with HMPS-2.

We investigated the perceptions of Japanese palliative care physicians for death rattle. One-third administer anticholinergic agents despite a lack of established evidence.