Naohiko Koide

TL;DR: In this article, the authors identified surgical outcomes of 386 consecutive patients with HCC undergoing hepatic resection and found that the longterm survival rate after operation remains unsatisfactory mainly because of the high recurrence rate.

TL;DR: It is suggested that MCP-1 expression and macrophage infiltration is associated with angiogenic promotion in esophageal SCC and CCR-2 expression in vascular endothelial cells may participate partially in angiogenesis.

TL;DR: Reports suggesting its malignancy, including recurrence of the tumor, locally invasive myxoma, extension from the heart, and distant metastasis are increasing, may prompt the development of therapeutic modalities for treatment of malignancies and cardiac cell regeneration.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors used a Cox's proportional hazards model to evaluate postresection prognostic factors for elderly patients with hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) and found that the presence of liver cirrhosis and vascular invasion were independently significant factors of poor overall survival.

TL;DR: The postresection survival of patients with HCV-related HCC should be stratified by the high value of AFP and the presence of vascular invasion, as AFP may be the most powerful predictor of the long-term prognosis and recurrence in such patients.