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DIAGNOSIS AND TREATMENT
UNIVERSITYHOSPITALORGANIZATIONCHART
DIAGNOSIS AND TREATMENT
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As a regional core hospital, the university hospital has striven to provide high quality medicine
and to train specialized medical personnel. In addition to raising the quality of patient services,
our hospital has renewed its Quality Health Care Evaluation
(
Ver. 5
)
conducted by the Japan
Council for Quality Health Care.
1
Tumor antigen-derived peptides-pulsed dendritic
cell-based vaccine immunotherapy
Dendritic cells that induce killer lymphocytes against cancer cells
are cultured and then injected into the patient. At our hospital,
this treatment is applied for patients with lung cancer and breast
cancer.
Advanced medical technology refers to the technology that the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare has
approved as the most advanced. This approval is granted only for the medical facilities that possess well-
trained staff and up-to-date facilities and equipment. The following three technologies are available at our
hospital
(
as of Nov. 1, 2012
)
.
Providing advanced medical technology
Providing Patients with Advanced Medicine
2
Laparoscopic Sleeve gastrectomy
Laparoscopic Sleeve Gastrectomy (LSG), removing most of
the stomach and shaping the remaining stomach into a tube
or “sleeve,” is a minimally invasive surgery for the patient
with morbid obesity. LSG is also known to resolve metabolic
syndrome including type 2 diabetes, hypertension and
hyperlipidemia.
3
Adjuvant Chemotherapy Trial of S-1 for breast
cancer with ER-positive and HER2-negative
A randomized, controlled study to determine whether S-1
combined with standard postoperative endocrine therapy more
effectively inhibits recurrence than standard postoperative
endocrine therapy alone in patients with estrogen receptor (ER)-
positive, HER2-negative primary breast cancer.