Clinical Research

In addition to our daily activities, we conduct clinical research in order to share with other institutions the knowledge that we obtain at HIBMC. The results of our research are published in internationally recognized journals.

Iwata H, Murakami M, Demizu Y, Miyawaki D, Terashima K, Niwa Y, Mima M, Akagi T, Hishikawa Y, Shibamoto Y.
"High-dose proton therapy and carbon-ion therapy for stage I non-small cell lung cancer"
Cancer. 2010 Mar 11. [Epub ahead of print]

Fukumoto T, Komatsu S, Hori Y, Murakami M, Hishikawa Y, Ku Y.
"Particle beam radiotherapy with a surgical spacer placement for advanced abdominal leiomyosarcoma results in a significant clinical benefit"
J Surg Oncol. 2010 Jan 1; 101(1):97-9.

Demizu Y, Murakami M, Miyawaki D, Niwa Y, Akagi T, Sasaki R, Terashima K, Suga D, Kamae I, Hishikawa Y.
"Analysis of vision loss caused by radiation-induced optic neuropathy after particle therapy for head-and-neck and skull-base tumors adjacent to optic nerves"
Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys. 2009 Dec 1;75(5):1487-92.

Miyawaki D, Murakami M, Demizu Y, Sasaki R, Niwa Y, Terashima K, Nishimura H, Hishikawa Y, Sugimura K.
"Brain injury after proton therapy or carbon ion therapy for head-and-neck cancer and skull base tumors"
Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys. 2009 Oct 1;75(2):378-84.

Murakami M, Demizu Y, Niwa Y, Miyawaki D, Terashimak K, Arimura T, Mima M, Nagayama S, Maeda T, Baba M, Akagi T, Hishikawa Y, Abe M.
"Radiotherapy using a laser proton accelerator: Current status of the HIBMC and results of representative diseases"
Laser-Driven Relativistic Plasmas Applied to Science, Industry and Medicine: 2nd International Symposium. 2009 Aug 17; 400-415.

Ito A, Kai Y, Goto M, Takeo N, Okamoto O, Kato A, Shimizu F, Katagiri K, Fujiwara S, Miura T, Watanabe K, Murakami M.
"Successful treatment of single lymph node metastasis of melanoma with carbon ion radiotherapy and chemotherapy"
J Dermatol. 2009 Jul; 36(7):430-2.

Mayahara H, Murakami M, Kagawa K, Kawaguchi A, Oda Y, Miyawaki D, Sasaki R, Sugimura K, Hishikawa Y.
"Acute morbidity of proton therapy for prostate cancer: the Hyogo Ion Beam Medical Center experience"
Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys. 2007 Oct 1;69(2):434-43.

Inui T, Asakawa A, Morita Y, Mizuno S, Natori T, Kawaguchi A, Murakami M, Hishikawa Y, Inui A.
"HER-2 overexpression and targeted treatment by trastuzumab in a very old patient with gastric cancer"
J Intern Med. 2006 Nov; 260(5):484-7.

Mayahara H, Oda Y, Kawaguchi A, Kagawa K, Murakami M, Hishikawa Y, Igaki H, Tokuuye K, Abe M.
"A case of hepatocellular carcinoma initially treated by carbon ions, followed by protons for marginal recurrence with portal thrombus"
Radiat Med. 2005 Nov;23(7):513-9.

Hishikawa Y, Oda Y, Mayahara H, Kawaguchi A, Kagawa K, Murakami M, Abe M.
"Status of the clinical work at Hyogo"
Radiother Oncol. 2004 Dec;73 Suppl 2:S38-40.

Hara I, Murakami M, Kagawa K, Sugimura K, Kamidono S, Hishikawa Y, Abe M.
"Experience with conformal proton therapy for early prostate cancer"
Am J Clin Oncol. 2004 Aug; 27(4):323-7.

Hishikawa Y, Kagawa K, Murakami M, Sakai H, Akagi T, Abe M.
"Usefulness of positron-emission tomographic images after proton therapy"
Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys. 2002 Aug 1;53(5):1388-91.


Various other Japanese language research papers