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1, 0.14 and 0.18 mA for grades 0, 1 and ≥2, respectively. Therefore, the mean pain threshold significantly increased with the progression of the clinical grade. The measurement of pain threshold by using IES may be a reliable indicator for quantitative evaluation of CIPN.Bronchogenic cyst is a relatively rare congenital malformation that is often identified in the mediastinum. The occurrence of bronchogenic cysts in the intramural esophagus and gastroesophageal junction is rare. The present report describes three cases of intramural bronchogenic cysts of the esophagus and gastroesophageal junction and reviews the clinicopathological features of these lesions. A 35-year-old Japanese male (Case 1), a 50-year-old Japanese woman (Case 2) and a 34-year-old Japanese man (Case 3) presented with dysphagia, pharyngeal pain and heartburn, respectively. Upper endoscopic examination revealed submucosal tumors in the esophagus (Case 1 and 2) and gastroesophageal junction (Case 3). Subsequent endoscopic examination revealed perforation of the cyst into the surface of the esophageal mucosa (Case 2). Surgical resection was performed in all cases. Histopathological examinations revealed that the submucosal cysts were covered by respiratory-type ciliated epithelium without atypia. Cartilage and bronchial glands were not observed in any of the cases. The present review of the clinicopathological characteristics of bronchogenic cysts of the esophagus and gastroesophageal junction revealed that males and females were equally affected. The median age of the patients was 34.5 years with a wide age distribution. The most common main complaint was dysphagia. A pre-operative diagnosis of bronchogenic cyst is difficult because no specific imaging features are present. As surgical resection is recommended for this lesion, recognition of the clinicopathological features of bronchogenic cysts is important for an accurate pre-operative diagnosis.The early detection of breast cancer enables the use of less aggressive treatment and increases patient survival. The transmembrane glycoprotein mucin 1, which is also known as cancer antigen 15-3 (CA15-3), is aberrantly glycosylated and overexpressed in a variety of epithelial cancers, and serves a crucial role in the progression of the disease. CA15-3 is currently used as a marker of breast cancer. In the present study, CA15-3 concentrations in saliva and blood of patients with breast cancer were evaluated to test new assays to detect salivary CA15-3 in addition to ELISA and its diagnostic value. To the best of our knowledge, there are no previous reports of the use of chemiluminescence assay (CLIA) and electrochemiluminescence assay (ECLIA) in saliva. Saliva and blood were collected on the same day from patients with breast cancer (n=26) and healthy controls (n=28). For each subject, the level of serum CA15-3 was measured using ECLIA, and the level of salivary CA15-3 was measured using ECLIA, CLIA and enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA). ELISA and CLIA were able to detect CA15-3 in saliva; however, ECLIA could not detect salivary CA15-3. There was no significant difference between the mean serum and salivary CA15-3 levels in patients with breast cancer or healthy controls. The levels of CA15-3 were highest for luminal breast cancer subtypes and stage IV cases. Selleckchem MEK inhibitor A moderate correlation was observed between salivary and serum CA15-3 levels as measured by ELISA in breast cancer patients (r=0.56; P=0.0047). The results demonstrated that ECLIA was not a good method to detect salivary CA15-3, although it is the gold standard for detecting serum CA15-3. The presence of CA15-3 in saliva was confirmed, and this will be useful in future research. Further investigations are necessary to confirm the ability to detect salivary CA15-3 and its correlation with serum CA15-3.The present study investigated the clinical significance afforded by locoregional surgery in improving the prognosis of primary metastatic testicular cancer (pMTC). The population-based Surveillance, Epidemiology and End Results database was used as the primary source of data in the present study. Stratification analysis was employed to identify the effects of testicular surgery on testicular cancer-specific survival and overall survival. Propensity score matching and Cox regression models were then employed to find and evaluate the extent of improvements to the survival of patients with pMTC by testicular surgery. The median testicular cancer-specific survival and overall survival in the surgery group were 10% higher than those in the group without surgery. Testicular surgery was demonstrated to have provided a survival advantage for patients with a single metastasis in the bone or brain, but not in the liver or lung. When combined with radiotherapy and chemotherapy, surgery significantly improved the survival of patients. However, according to the surgical outcome based on molecular subtypes, when deciding on the surgery for patients with metastatic testicular cancer, only human chorionic gonadotropin and lactate dehydrogenase, and not α-fetoprotein should be considered. Surgery serves a significant role in the management of non-seminoma, whereas its role in the management of seminoma is far more limited. The effects of locoregional surgery have been neglected when treating patients with pMTC. Surgical procedures should be considered more seriously when planning combination treatments for patients with pMTC with a single bone or brain metastasis.A diagnostic biopsy for endometrial cancer is performed via dilation and curettage (D&C). However, D&C may miss endometrial cancer lesions due to of its 'blind' approach. Hysteroscopy is a useful method that can be used to detect endometrial cancer lesions. In addition, office hysteroscopy is easy to be scheduled and does not require anesthesia. The patient was a 40-year-old woman with suspected endometrial cancer; however, it could not be diagnosed by D&C and biopsy using hysteroscopy during hospitalization. Office hysteroscopy during the proliferative phase indicated that the suspicious endometrial cancerous lesion was minimal at the isthmus of the uterus with atypical vessels and a white spot, for which biopsy was performed. Pathological diagnosis was endometrioid carcinoma with squamous differentiation, G1. Therefore, total laparoscopic hysterectomy, bilateral salpingo-oophorectomy and pelvic lymphadenectomy were performed. In this case, it was difficult to detect minimal lesion in the secretory phase because the endometrial thickness hid the endometrial cancer.