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Hisao Asamura

Hisao Asamura

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104
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49338
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6955
National Ranking
164

Overview

Hisao Asamura is affiliated with Keio University in Japan and has an extensive publication record primarily in the field of Medicine. Their research focuses on Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine, Oncology, Surgery, Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging, and Neurology. The main research topics cover Lung Cancer Diagnosis and Treatment, Lung Cancer Treatments and Mutations, Lung Cancer Research Studies, Radiomics and Machine Learning in Medical Imaging, Myasthenia Gravis and Thymoma, Pleural and Pulmonary Diseases, and Neuroendocrine Tumor Research Advances.

Their recent papers include:

  • Segmentectomy versus lobectomy in small-sized peripheral non-small-cell lung cancer (JCOG0802/WJOG4607L): a multicentre, open-label, phase 3, randomised, controlled, non-inferiority trial, 2022, The Lancet
  • A single-arm study of sublobar resection for ground-glass opacity dominant peripheral lung cancer, 2020, Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery
  • The International Association for the Study of Lung Cancer Lung Cancer Staging Project: Proposals for Revision of the TNM Stage Groups in the Forthcoming (Ninth) Edition of the TNM Classification for Lung Cancer, 2024, Journal of Thoracic Oncology
  • Long-Term Prognosis of Patients With Resected Adenocarcinoma In Situ and Minimally Invasive Adenocarcinoma of the Lung, 2021, Journal of Thoracic Oncology
  • Clinical Impacts of EGFR Mutation Status: Analysis of 5780 Surgically Resected Lung Cancer Cases, 2020, The Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Hisao Asamura include:

  • Ramón Rami-Porta
  • Keisuke Asakura
  • Shun-ichi Watanabe
  • Tomoyuki Hishida
  • Kyohei Masai

The scientist commonly publishes in the following venues:

  • Journal of Thoracic Oncology
  • Lung Cancer
  • The Journal of the Japanese Association for Chest Surgery
  • Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery
  • Cancer Research

Hisao Asamura has contributed to book publications as well, including the 2024 title Tratado de Cirurgia Torácica, published by Even3 Publicações eBooks.

Best Publications

  • International Association for the Study of Lung Cancer/American Thoracic Society/European Respiratory Society International Multidisciplinary Classification of Lung Adenocarcinoma

    William D Travis;Elisabeth Brambilla;Masayuki Noguchi;Andrew G Nicholson

  • The IASLC Lung Cancer Staging Project: Proposals for Revision of the TNM Stage Groupings in the Forthcoming (Eighth) Edition of the TNM Classification for Lung Cancer.

    Peter Goldstraw;Kari Chansky;John Crowley;Ramon Rami-Porta

  • The IASLC lung cancer staging project: A proposal for a new international lymph node map in the forthcoming seventh edition of the TNM classification for lung cancer

    Valerie W. Rusch;Hisao Asamura;Hirokazu Watanabe;Dorothy J. Giroux

  • Cancer related mutations in NRF2 impair its recognition by Keap1-Cul3 E3 ligase and promote malignancy

    Tatsuhiro Shibata;Tsutomu Ohta;Kit I. Tong;Akiko Kokubu

  • The International Association for the Study of Lung Cancer Lung Cancer Staging Project: Proposals for the Revision of the N Descriptors in the Forthcoming 8th Edition of the TNM Classification for Lung Cancer

    Hisao Asamura;Kari Chansky;John Crowley;Peter Goldstraw

  • The IASLC Lung Cancer Staging Project: Proposals for Coding T Categories for Subsolid Nodules and Assessment of Tumor Size in Part-Solid Tumors in the Forthcoming Eighth Edition of the TNM Classification of Lung Cancer

    William D. Travis;Hisao Asamura;Alexander A. Bankier;Mary Beth Beasley

  • A prospective radiological study of thin-section computed tomography to predict pathological noninvasiveness in peripheral clinical IA lung cancer (Japan Clinical Oncology Group 0201).

    Kenji Suzuki;Teruaki Koike;Takashi Asakawa;Masahiko Kusumoto

  • A Phase III Randomized Trial of Lobectomy Versus Limited Resection for Small-sized Peripheral Non-small Cell Lung Cancer (JCOG0802/WJOG4607L)

    Kenichi Nakamura;Hisashi Saji;Ryu Nakajima;Morihito Okada

  • A review of 79 thymomas: Modification of staging system and reappraisal of conventional division into invasive and non‐invasive thymoma

    Kenji Koga;Yoshihiro Matsuno;Masayuki Noguchi;Kiyoshi Mukai

  • Neuroendocrine Neoplasms of the Lung: A Prognostic Spectrum

    Hisao Asamura;Toru Kameya;Yoshihiro Matsuno;Masayuki Noguchi

  • A Japanese Lung Cancer Registry Study: Prognosis of 13,010 Resected Lung Cancers

    Hisao Asamura;Tomoyuki Goya;Yoshihiko Koshiishi;Yasunori Sohara

  • Comparison of pulmonary segmentectomy and lobectomy: Safety results of a randomized trial

    Kenji Suzuki;Hisashi Saji;Keiju Aokage;Shun-Ichi Watanabe

  • The IASLC/ITMIG thymic epithelial tumors staging project : proposal for an evidence-based stage classification system for the forthcoming (8th) edition of the TNM classification of malignant tumors

    Frank C. Detterbeck;Kelly Stratton;Dorothy Giroux;Hisao Asamura

  • Radiologic classification of small adenocarcinoma of the lung: radiologic-pathologic correlation and its prognostic impact.

    Kenji Suzuki;Masahiko Kusumoto;Shun Ichi Watanabe;Ryosuke Tsuchiya

  • Lung cancer — major changes in the American Joint Committee on Cancer eighth edition cancer staging manual

    Ramón Rami-Porta;Hisao Asamura;William D. Travis;Valerie W. Rusch

  • Early peripheral lung cancer: Prognostic significance of ground glass opacity on thin-section computed tomographic scan

    Kenji Suzuki;Hisao Asamura;Masahiko Kusumoto;Haruhiko Kondo

  • Large cell neuroendocrine carcinoma of the lung: a clinicopathologic study of eighty-seven cases.

    Hidefumi Takei;Hisao Asamura;Arafumi Maeshima;Kenji Suzuki

  • Prognosis of 6644 resected non-small cell lung cancers in Japan: A Japanese lung cancer registry study

    Tomoyuki Goya;Hisao Asamura;Hirokuni Yoshimura;Harubumi Kato

  • Initial analysis of the international association for the study of lung cancer mesothelioma database.

    Valerie W. Rusch;Dorothy Giroux;Catherine Kennedy;Enrico Ruffini

  • STAT6 immunohistochemistry is helpful in the diagnosis of solitary fibrous tumors.

    Akihiko Yoshida;Koji Tsuta;Makoto Ohno;Masayuki Yoshida

Frequent Co-Authors

Kenji Suzuki
Kenji Suzuki Juntendo University
Koji Tsuta
Koji Tsuta Kansai Medical University
Yoshihiro Matsuno
Yoshihiro Matsuno Hokkaido University
Meinoshin Okumura
Meinoshin Okumura Osaka University
Valerie W. Rusch
Valerie W. Rusch Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Hitoshi Tsuda
Hitoshi Tsuda National Defense Medical College
William D. Travis
William D. Travis Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Masaki Mori
Masaki Mori Kyushu University
Tatsuhiro Shibata
Tatsuhiro Shibata University of Tokyo
Tetsuya Mitsudomi
Tetsuya Mitsudomi Kindai University

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