1. Sentinel node biopsy versus elective lymph node dissection in patients with cutaneous melanoma in a Japanese population

   • Arata Tsutsumida
   • Hiroshi Furukawa
   • Toyohiro Honma

   ORIGINAL ARTICLE 20 August 2007 Pages: 245 - 249

2. The impact of real-time tissue elasticity imaging (elastography) on the detection of prostate cancer: clinicopathological analysis

   • Masakazu Tsutsumi
   • Tomoaki Miyagawa
   • Hideyuki Akaza

   ORIGINAL ARTICLE 20 August 2007 Pages: 250 - 255

3. Progression-free survival and overall survival of patients with clear cell carcinoma of the ovary treated with paclitaxel-carboplatin or irinotecan-cisplatin: retrospective analysis

   • Masashi Takano
   • Toru Sugiyama
   • Yoshihiro Kikuchi

   ORIGINAL ARTICLE 20 August 2007 Pages: 256 - 260

4. Role of 10-Gy boost radiation after breast-conserving surgery for stage I–II breast cancer with a 5-mm negative margin

   • Masafumi Notani
   • Nobue Uchida
   • Hajime Kitagaki

   ORIGINAL ARTICLE 20 August 2007 Pages: 261 - 267

5. Treatment with an oral fluoropyrimidine, S-1, plus cisplatin in patients who failed postoperative gemcitabine treatment for pancreatic cancer: a pilot study

   • Akira Togawa
   • Hideyuki Yoshitomi
   • Masaru Miyazaki

   ORIGINAL ARTICLE 20 August 2007 Pages: 268 - 273

6. Preliminary experience with a modified premedication protocol that included intravenous diphenhydramine and calcium bromide for the prophylaxis of paclitaxel-related hypersensitivity reactions

   • Shinji Sasada
   • Tomonori Hirashima
   • Ichiro Kawase

   ORIGINAL ARTICLE 20 August 2007 Pages: 274 - 278

7. Gemcitabine and cisplatin for advanced urothelial carcinomas: the Ehime University Hospital experience

   • Akira Ozawa
   • Nozomu Tanji
   • Masayoshi Yokoyama

   ORIGINAL ARTICLE 20 August 2007 Pages: 279 - 283

8. Pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics of paclitaxel with carboplatin or gemcitabine, and effects of CYP3A5 and MDR1 polymorphisms in patients with urogenital cancers

   • Mari Jiko
   • Ikuko Yano
   • Ken-ichi Inui

   ORIGINAL ARTICLE 20 August 2007 Pages: 284 - 290

9. Retrospective analysis of prognosis for scirrhous-type gastric cancer: one institution's experience

   • Rieko Nakamura
   • Yoshiro Saikawa
   • Masaki Kitajima

   ORIGINAL ARTICLE 20 August 2007 Pages: 291 - 294

10. A patient with gastric cancer and liver metastases successfully treated with combination chemotherapy including S-1

    • Rieko Nakamura
    • Yoshiro Saikawa
    • Masaki Kitajima

    CASE REPORT 20 August 2007 Pages: 295 - 299

11. Hepatic lesion of invasive thymoma: possibility of direct invasion

    • Tatsuro Okamoto
    • Takao Teruya
    • Yukito Ichinose

    CASE REPORT 20 August 2007 Pages: 300 - 302

12. Multiple bilateral choroidal metastasis from anal melanoma

    • James Haddow
    • Danayya Muthapati
    • Pradeep Agarwal

    CASE REPORT 20 August 2007 Pages: 303 - 304

13. Endometrial carcinosarcoma presenting as a tibial metastasis

    • Masako Ishibashi
    • Ritsuto Fujiwaki
    • Kohji Sawada

    CASE REPORT 20 August 2007 Pages: 305 - 308

14. Inflammatory pseudotumor of the lung: a pathological controversy

    • Hiroyuki Sakurai

    LETTER TO THE EDITOR 20 August 2007 Pages: 309 - 309