2017 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
Study of spreading of residual cancer cells in the chest cavity
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15K10277
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
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| Allocation Type | Multi-year Fund |
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| Section | 一般 |
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| Research Field |
Respiratory surgery
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| Research Institution | University of Tsukuba |
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Principal Investigator |
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| Research Collaborator |
GOTO Yukinobu 筑波大学, 医学医療系, 講師
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| Project Period (FY) |
2015-04-01 – 2018-03-31
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| Keywords | 肺癌 / 転移 / リンパ管 / 胸管 |
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| Outline of Final Research Achievements |
Even after curative operation of lung cancer, I sometimes experienced metastasis to lymph nodes or other organs. In such a case, residual cancer cells might be stayed in the chest cavity. The cancer cells could enter the thoracic duct and flow away to other places, producing metastasis sites.
In this study I tried to see the phenomenon using fluorescent cancer cells introduced into the rat cavity and observed continuously under the fluorescent microscope. Before this experiment I succeeded to observe the cancer cells in the blood vessels and measured the velocity of the tumor blood flow. However, the attempted experiment how cancer cells move in the lymphatics was not succeeded.
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| Free Research Field |
呼吸器外科
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