Hideki Ueno

Four Cases of Pancreatic Acinar Cell Carcinoma Treated with Gemcitabine or S-1 as a Single Agent (2009)

Seki, Yoshitaka, Okusaka, Takuji, Ikeda, Masafumi, Morizane, Chigusa, Ueno, Hideki

Pancreatic acinar cell carcinoma (ACC) is a comparatively rare tumor and account for ∼1% of all cases of pancreatic cancer. Clinical presentation is usually related to either local spread or...

Predictive Factors of Outcome and Tumor Response to Systemic Chemotherapy in Patients with Metastatic Hepatocellular Carcinoma (2008)

Ikeda, Masafumi, Okusaka, Takuji, Ueno, Hideki, Morizane, Chigusa, Kojima, Yasushi, Iwasa, Satoru, ...

Objective Systemic chemotherapy is an important treatment modality for metastatic hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC); however, the predictive factors of outcome and tumor response have not been fully...

Prognostic Factors in Japanese Patients with Advanced Pancreatic Cancer Treated with Single-agent Gemcitabine as First-line Therapy (2008)

Tanaka, Tsutomu, Ikeda, Masafumi, Okusaka, Takuji, Ueno, Hideki, Morizane, Chigusa, Hagihara, Atsushi, ...

Objective The purpose of the retrospective analysis is to elucidate the treatment efficacy and toxicity as well as to identify prognostic factors in Japanese patients with advanced pancreatic cancer...

Immunological intervention in human diseases (2007)

Ueno, Hideki, Hawrylowicz, Catherine M, Banchereau, Jacques

Abstract A recent Keystone Symposium Meeting on "Immunological Intervention in Human Disease" was held in Big Sky, Montana on January, 6–11, 2007, organized by Jacques Banchereau, Federica Sallusto...

Phase II Study of Combination Chemotherapy with Gemcitabine and Cisplatin for Patients with Metastatic Pancreatic Cancer (2007)

Ueno, Hideki, Okusaka, Takuji, Ikeda, Masafumi, Morizane, Chigusa, Ogura, Takashi, Hagihara, Atsushi, ...

Objective The objectives of this study were to evaluate the efficacy and toxicity of combination chemotherapy with gemcitabine and cisplatin in patients with metastatic pancreatic cancer. Methods...

T1 Neuroendocrine Carcinoma of Anal Canal after Transanal Resection for Intramucosal Adenocarcinoma (2006)

Kobayashi, Hirotoshi, Ueno, Hideki, Hashiguchi, Yojiro, Ishiguro, Megumi, Omata, Jiro, Kajiwara, Yoshiki, ...

Neuroendocrine carcinomas of the anal canal are rare, representing 1% of malignant tumors of the anal canal. This tumor behaves aggressively and leads to poor outcomes. The majority of tumors are...

T1 Neuroendocrine Carcinoma of Anal Canal after Transanal Resection for Intramucosal Adenocarcinoma (2006)

Kobayashi, Hirotoshi, Ueno, Hideki, Hashiguchi, Yojiro, Ishiguro, Megumi, Omata, Jiro, Kajiwara, Yoshiki, ...

Neuroendocrine carcinomas of the anal canal are rare, representing 1% of malignant tumors of the anal canal. This tumor behaves aggressively and leads to poor outcomes. The majority of tumors are...

A Phase I/II Study of Combination Chemotherapy with Gemcitabine and 5-Fluorouracil for Advanced Pancreatic Cancer (2006)

Okusaka, Takuji, Ishii, Hiroshi, Funakoshi, Akihiro, Ueno, Hideki, Furuse, Junji, Sumii, Toshihiko

Background: In an effort to improve efficacy of single-agent gemcitabine in pancreatic cancer, several studies have examined the effects of 5-FU combined with gemcitabine. However, no studies to date...

Early Phase II Study of Uracil-Tegafur Plus Doxorubicin in Patients with Unresectable Advanced Biliary Tract Cancer (2006)

Furuse, Junji, Okusaka, Takuji, Funakoshi, Akihiro, Yamao, Kenji, Nagase, Michitaka, Ishii, Hiroshi, ...

Background: Standard chemotherapy for advanced biliary tract cancer has not been established. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the efficacy and toxicity of a combination chemotherapy of...

Early Phase II Study of Uracil-Tegafur Plus Doxorubicin in Patients with Unresectable Advanced Biliary Tract Cancer (2006)

Furuse, Junji, Okusaka, Takuji, Funakoshi, Akihiro, Yamao, Kenji, Nagase, Michitaka, Ishii, Hiroshi, ...

Background: Standard chemotherapy for advanced biliary tract cancer has not been established. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the efficacy and toxicity of a combination chemotherapy of...

A Phase I/II Study of Combination Chemotherapy with Gemcitabine and 5-Fluorouracil for Advanced Pancreatic Cancer (2006)

Okusaka, Takuji, Ishii, Hiroshi, Funakoshi, Akihiro, Ueno, Hideki, Furuse, Junji, Sumii, Toshihiko

Background: In an effort to improve efficacy of single-agent gemcitabine in pancreatic cancer, several studies have examined the effects of 5-FU combined with gemcitabine. However, no studies to date...

Prevalence of Inherited Male-Killing Microorganisms in Japanese Population of Ladybird Beetle Harmonia axyridis (Coleoptera: Coccinellidae) (2005)

Kayo Nakamura, Hideki Ueno, Kazuki Miura

Maternally inherited bacteria that kill male but not female hosts during embryogenesis occur in Harmonia axyridis (Pallas). In two populations in Japan, Fukuyama, Hiroshima, and Muikamachi, Niigata,...

A Phase II Trial of Uracil-Tegafur (UFT) in Patients with Advanced Biliary Tract Carcinoma (2005)

Ikeda, Masafumi, Okusaka, Takuji, Ueno, Hideki, Morizane, Chigusa, Furuse, Junji, Ishii, Hiroshi

Background: Uracil-tegafur (UFT) has been reported to have broad antitumor activity in a variety of malignancies. However, its activity in biliary tract carcinoma has not been fully evaluated. The...

Phase I Study of Fixed Dose Rate Infusion of Gemcitabine in Patients with Unresectable Pancreatic Cancer (2005)

Furuse, Junji, Ishii, Hiroshi, Okusaka, Takuji, Nagase, Michitaka, Nakachi, Kohei, Ueno, Hideki, ...

Objective: The purpose of this study was to determine the feasible dose of gemcitabine when administered as a fixed dose rate infusion (10 mg/m2/min) on a weekly schedule to Japanese patients with...

A Phase II Trial of Uracil-Tegafur (UFT) in Patients with Advanced Biliary Tract Carcinoma (2005)

Ikeda, Masafumi, Okusaka, Takuji, Ueno, Hideki, Morizane, Chigusa, Furuse, Junji, Ishii, Hiroshi

Background: Uracil–tegafur (UFT) has been reported to have broad antitumor activity in a variety of malignancies. However, its activity in biliary tract carcinoma has not been fully evaluated. The...

Phase I Study of Fixed Dose Rate Infusion of Gemcitabine in Patients with Unresectable Pancreatic Cancer (2005)

Furuse, Junji, Ishii, Hiroshi, Okusaka, Takuji, Nagase, Michitaka, Nakachi, Kohei, Ueno, Hideki, ...

Objective: The purpose of this study was to determine the feasible dose of gemcitabine when administered as a fixed dose rate infusion (10 mg/m2/min) on a weekly schedule to Japanese patients...

A Phase II Trial of Uracil-Tegafur (UFT) in Patients with Advanced Biliary Tract Carcinoma (2005)

Ikeda, Masafumi, Okusaka, Takuji, Ueno, Hideki, Morizane, Chigusa, Furuse, Junji, Ishii, Hiroshi

Background: Uracil-tegafur (UFT) has been reported to have broad antitumor activity in a variety of malignancies. However, its activity in biliary tract carcinoma has not been fully evaluated. The...

Phase I Study of Fixed Dose Rate Infusion of Gemcitabine in Patients with Unresectable Pancreatic Cancer (2005)

Furuse, Junji, Ishii, Hiroshi, Okusaka, Takuji, Nagase, Michitaka, Nakachi, Kohei, Ueno, Hideki, ...

Objective: The purpose of this study was to determine the feasible dose of gemcitabine when administered as a fixed dose rate infusion (10 mg/m2/min) on a weekly schedule to Japanese patients with...

Prognostic Factors in Patients with Hepatocellular Carcinoma Treated by Transcatheter Arterial Embolization (2002)

Ikeda, Masafumi, Okada, Shuichi, Yamamoto, Seiichiro, Sato, Tosiya, Ueno, Hideki, Okusaka, Takuji, ...

Background: Transcatheter arterial embolization induces marked antitumor response in patients with hepatocellular carcinoma, but the survival benefit of transcatheter arterial embolization remains to...

Phase I Trial of Gemcitabine in Patients with Advanced Pancreatic Cancer (2001)

Okada, Shuichi, Ueno, Hideki, Okusaka, Takuji, Ikeda, Masafumi, Furuse, Junji, Maru, Yasushi

Background: Gemcitabine is the most promising new agent currently being tested in pancreatic cancer. The present study was conducted to confirm the tolerability of a weekly schedule of gemcitabine at...

Spontaneous Regression of Hepatocellular Carcinoma with Multiple Lung Metastases: a Case Report (2001)

Ikeda, Masafumi, Okada, Shuichi, Ueno, Hideki, Okusaka, Takuji, Kuriyama, Hitoshi

Spontaneous regression of hepatocellular carcinoma is an extraordinarily unusual phenomenon. We present here a case of a 75-year-old man in whom multiple lung metastases of hepatocellular carcinoma...

Radiofrequency Ablation and Percutaneous Ethanol Injection in Patients with Small Hepatocellular Carcinoma: a Comparative Study (2001)

Ikeda, Masafumi, Okada, Shuichi, Ueno, Hideki, Okusaka, Takuji, Kuriyama, Hitoshi

Background: Radiofrequency ablation (RFA) is a novel thermal ablation technique to achieve coagulative necrosis of hepatocellular carcinoma. A study was conducted to compare the antitumor effect and...

ATP sensitive potassium channels are involved in adenosine A2 receptor mediated coronary vasodilatation in the dog (1994)

Akatsuka, Yutaka, Egashira, Kensuke, Katsuda, Yousuke, Narishige, Takahiro, Ueno, Hideki, Shimokawa, Hiroaki, ...

Objective: The aim was to determine a role of ATP sensitive potassium (KATP) channels in adenosine A2 receptor mediated coronary vasodilatation in anaesthetised dogs in vivo. Methods: Coronary blood...

Preoperative Parameters Expanding the Indication of Sphincter Preserving Surgery in Patients With Advanced Low Rectal Cancer

Ueno, Hideki, Mochizuki, Hidetaka, Hashiguchi, Yojiro, Ishikawa, Keiichi, Fujimoto, Hajime, Shinto, Eiji, ...

The preoperative evaluation of 3 parameters (histologic characteristics in the submucosal region, annularity, and gross appearance of tumor, which were selected as independent parameters of...

A New Prognostic Staging System for Rectal Cancer

Ueno, Hideki, Price, Ashley B., Wilkinson, Kay H., Jass, Jeremy R., Mochizuki, Hidetaka, Talbot, Ian C.

Based on 2 discrete cohorts of rectal cancer patients, tumor “budding” was identified as a reproducible independent prognostic indicator that can improve the erroneous staging of advanced disease...

Extent of Mesorectal Tumor Invasion as a Prognostic Factor After Curative Surgery for T3 Rectal Cancer Patients

Miyoshi, Masayoshi, Ueno, Hideki, Hashiguchi, Yojiro, Mochizuki, Hidetaka, Talbot, Ian C.

The extent of mesorectal tumor invasion was evaluated using 2 data sets comprising 196 and 247 patients at separate institutes to determine the significance of it as a prognostic factor for T3 rectal...

Preoperative Parameters Expanding the Indication of Sphincter Preserving Surgery in Patients With Advanced Low Rectal Cancer

Ueno, Hideki, Mochizuki, Hidetaka, Hashiguchi, Yojiro, Ishikawa, Keiichi, Fujimoto, Hajime, Shinto, Eiji, ...

The preoperative evaluation of 3 parameters (histologic characteristics in the submucosal region, annularity, and gross appearance of tumor, which were selected as independent parameters of...

A New Prognostic Staging System for Rectal Cancer

Ueno, Hideki, Price, Ashley B., Wilkinson, Kay H., Jass, Jeremy R., Mochizuki, Hidetaka, Talbot, Ian C.

Based on 2 discrete cohorts of rectal cancer patients, tumor “budding” was identified as a reproducible independent prognostic indicator that can improve the erroneous staging of advanced disease...

Extent of Mesorectal Tumor Invasion as a Prognostic Factor After Curative Surgery for T3 Rectal Cancer Patients

Miyoshi, Masayoshi, Ueno, Hideki, Hashiguchi, Yojiro, Mochizuki, Hidetaka, Talbot, Ian C.

The extent of mesorectal tumor invasion was evaluated using 2 data sets comprising 196 and 247 patients at separate institutes to determine the significance of it as a prognostic factor for T3 rectal...

Potential Prognostic Benefit of Lateral Pelvic Node Dissection for Rectal Cancer Located Below the Peritoneal Reflection

Ueno, Hideki, Mochizuki, Hidetaka, Hashiguchi, Yojiro, Ishiguro, Megumi, Miyoshi, Masayoshi, Kajiwara, Yoshiki, ...

Among 244 patients who underwent potentially curative surgery with lateral pelvic node dissection for advanced lower rectal cancer, lateral nodal involvement (LNI) was observed in 41 patients (17%),...

Immunological intervention in human diseases

Ueno, Hideki, Hawrylowicz, Catherine M, Banchereau, Jacques

A recent Keystone Symposium Meeting on "Immunological Intervention in Human Disease" was held in Big Sky, Montana on January, 6–11, 2007, organized by Jacques Banchereau, Federica Sallusto and...

Circulating tumor antigen-specific regulatory T cells in patients with metastatic melanoma

Vence, Luis, Palucka, A. Karolina, Fay, Joseph W., Ito, Tomoki, Liu, Yong-Jun, Banchereau, Jacques, ...

Although it is accepted that regulatory T cells (T regs) contribute to cancer progression, most studies in the field consider nonantigen-specific suppression. Here, we show the presence of tumor...