BACKGROUND A solitary metastatic liver tumor of prostate cancer is extremely rare because liver metastasis occurs as a part of systemic dissemination of prostate cancer. We herein report a successfully resected case of a solitary metastatic liver tumor from prostate cancer almost 15 years after radical prostatectomy. CASE PRESENTATION A 70-year-old male who had undergone radical prostatectomy...

hepatocellular carcinoma (hcc) is very rare during pregnancy and has a worse prognosis in pregnant women compared to those who are not pregnant. we present a case of hcc in a 41- year-old pregnant patient who was referred to our academic hospital. the patient presented with chief complaints of abdominal pain, jaundice, edema and hypertension. laboratory results were notable for elevated liver e...

THE EWHA MEDICAL JOURNAL Acute Liver Injury Caused by Diffuse Lymphangitic Liver Metastasis from Colon Cancer Ho Seok Chi, Sun Young Kim, Min Ju Kim, Eun Kyung Hong, Sang Ho Lee, Chang Woo Shim Department of Internal Medicine, National Cancer Center Hospital, Goyang, Department of Oncology, Asan Medical Center, University of Ulsan College of Medicine, Seoul, Centers for Colorectal Cancer and Li...

Liver cancer is the third leading cause of cancer death worldwide and about half of the patients with liver cancer require adjuvant therapy after surgical resection. Therefore, development of novel agents to eradicate cancer cells may constitute a viable approach to treat patients with liver cancer. Andrographolide, a diterpenoid lactone isolated from Andrographis paniculata, is known to posses...

493 MJA 197 (9) · 5 November 2012 now estimated to affect around 400000 people, or 2% of the population.3 Liver cancer survival remains among the lowest of all cancers, with only 16% of people still alive 5 years after diagnosis. By 2007, liver cancer had become the 11th most common cause of cancer death of Australians.1 For the first time, the new AIHW report indicates that primary liver cance...

Deregulation of the epigenome component affects multiple pathways in the cancer phenotype since the epigenome acts at the pinnacle of the hierarchy of gene expression. Pioneering work over the past decades has highlighted that targeting enzymes or proteins involved in the epigenetic regulation is a valuable approach to cancer therapy. Very recent results demonstrated that inhibiting the epigene...

PURPOSE Increased vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) expression is associated with colorectal cancer liver metastases. It is reasonable to expect that measurement of VEGF in liver metastases would provide the best prediction of therapy benefit for VEGF-targeted drugs, such as bevacizumab (Avastin). In this study, we evaluated how VEGF mRNA level in primary colorectal cancer was related t...

PURPOSE Liver resection with colorectal liver metastasis widely accepted and has been considered safe and effective therapeutic option. However, the role of liver resection in breast cancer with liver metastasis is still controversial. Therefore, we reviewed the outcome of liver resection in breast cancer patients with liver metastases in a single hospital experiences. MATERIALS AND METHODS B...