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Kanji Nagai is affiliated with Kitasato University in Japan. Their research primarily focuses on the fields of Medicine, with particular attention to Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine as well as Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging.

Their work has contributed to the understanding of lung cancer diagnosis and treatment, lung cancer treatments and mutations, and the application of radiomics and machine learning in medical imaging.

Among Kanji Nagai's recent publications are:

  • Low-dose CT lung cancer screening in never-smokers and smokers: results of an eight-year observational study, 2020, published in Translational Lung Cancer Research
  • Contents, 2023, published in Gastrointestinal Endoscopy

Kanji Nagai has frequently published in the following venues:

  • Translational Lung Cancer Research
  • Gastrointestinal Endoscopy

Frequent collaborators in their research include:

  • Ryutaro Kakinuma
  • Yukio Muramatsu
  • Hisao Asamura
  • Shun-ichi Watanabe
  • Masahiko Kusumoto

Best Publications

  • 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

  • Screening for Lung Cancer With Low-Dose Helical Computed Tomography: Anti-Lung Cancer Association Project

    Tomotaka Sobue;Noriyuki Moriyama;Masahiro Kaneko;Masahiko Kusumoto

  • Video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery for small indeterminate pulmonary nodules: indications for preoperative marking.

    Kenji Suzuki;Kanji Nagai;Junji Yoshida;Hironobu Ohmatsu

  • Neuroendocrine Neoplasms of the Lung: A Prognostic Spectrum

    Hisao Asamura;Toru Kameya;Yoshihiro Matsuno;Masayuki Noguchi

  • Transplantation of human tumors in nude mice.

    Yukio Shimosato;Toru Kameya;Kanji Nagai;Setsuo Hirohashi

  • Radiographically determined noninvasive adenocarcinoma of the lung: Survival outcomes of Japan Clinical Oncology Group 0201

    Hisao Asamura;Tomoyuki Hishida;Kenji Suzuki;Teruaki Koike

  • Prognostic significance of the size of central fibrosis in peripheral adenocarcinoma of the lung.

    Kenji Suzuki;Tomoyuki Yokose;Junji Yoshida;Mitsuyo Nishimura

  • Squamous cell carcinoma of the thymus. An analysis of eight cases.

    Yukio Shimosato;Toru Kameya;Kanji Nagai;Keiichi Suemasu

  • Increased cyclooxygenase 2 (COX-2) expression occurs frequently in precursor lesions of human adenocarcinoma of the lung.

    Yukio Hosomi;Tomoyuki Yokose;Yuko Hirose;Ryu Nakajima

  • Podoplanin expression by cancer associated fibroblasts predicts poor prognosis of lung adenocarcinoma.

    Akikazu Kawase;Genichiro Ishii;Kanji Nagai;Takeo Ito

  • A randomized trial comparing induction chemotherapy followed by surgery with surgery alone for patients with stage IIIA N2 non-small cell lung cancer (JCOG 9209)☆☆☆★

    Kanji Nagai;Ryosuke Tsuchiya;Takashi Mori;Hiroto Tada

  • Pleomorphic Carcinoma of the Lung: Clinicopathologic Characteristics of 70 Cases

    Takahiro Mochizuki;Genichiro Ishii;Kanji Nagai;Junji Yoshida

  • Limited resection trial for pulmonary ground-glass opacity nodules: fifty-case experience.

    Junji Yoshida;Kanji Nagai;Tomoyuki Yokose;Mitsuyo Nishimura

  • Visceral pleural invasion is an invasive and aggressive indicator of non-small cell lung cancer.

    Kimihiro Shimizu;Junji Yoshida;Kanji Nagai;Mitsuyo Nishimura

  • Phase II Trial of Preoperative Chemoradiotherapy Followed by Surgical Resection in Patients With Superior Sulcus Non–Small-Cell Lung Cancers: Report of Japan Clinical Oncology Group Trial 9806

    Hideo Kunitoh;Harubumi Kato;Masahiro Tsuboi;Taro Shibata

  • Progression of focal pure ground-glass opacity detected by low-dose helical computed tomography screening for lung cancer.

    Ryutaro Kakinuma;Hironobu Ohmatsu;Masahiro Kaneko;Masahiko Kusumoto

  • Stromal Macrophage Expressing CD204 is Associated with Tumor Aggressiveness in Lung Adenocarcinoma

    Yoichi Ohtaki;Genichiro Ishii;Kanji Nagai;Satoshi Ashimine

  • Favorable and unfavorable morphological prognostic factors in peripheral adenocarcinoma of the lung 3 cm or less in diameter.

    Tomoyuki Yokose;Kenji Suzuki;Kanji Nagai;Yutaka Nishiwaki

  • Podoplanin-Positive Fibroblasts Enhance Lung Adenocarcinoma Tumor Formation: Podoplanin in Fibroblast Functions for Tumor Progression

    Ayuko Hoshino;Genichiro Ishii;Takashi Ito;Kazuhiko Aoyagi

  • Growth inhibition of human prostate cancer cells in human adult bone implanted into nonobese diabetic/severe combined immunodeficient mice by a ligand-specific antibody to human insulin-like growth factors.

    Masato Goya;Shin’ichi Miyamoto;Kanji Nagai;Yuji Ohki

Frequent Co-Authors

Yutaka Nishiwaki
Yutaka Nishiwaki Tokyo Medical University
Atsushi Ochiai
Atsushi Ochiai University of Tokyo
Kenji Suzuki
Kenji Suzuki Juntendo University
Yuichiro Ohe
Yuichiro Ohe National Cancer Centre
Hiroyasu Esumi
Hiroyasu Esumi Tokyo University of Science
Yosuke Uchitomi
Yosuke Uchitomi National Cancer Research Institute, UK
Hisao Asamura
Hisao Asamura Keio University
Tetsuya Mitsudomi
Tetsuya Mitsudomi Kindai University
Koji Tsuta
Koji Tsuta Kansai Medical University
Tatsuo Akechi
Tatsuo Akechi Nagoya City University

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