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Mitsuo Shimada is affiliated with the University of Tokushima in Japan and has contributed extensively to medical research, particularly within the field of medicine. Their academic work spans several subfields, including surgery, oncology, pulmonary and respiratory medicine, hepatology, and molecular biology.

The primary focus of their research relates to hepatocellular carcinoma treatment and prognosis, colorectal cancer surgical treatments, gastric cancer management and outcomes, cholangiocarcinoma and gallbladder cancer studies, pancreatic and hepatic oncology research, nutrition and health in aging, and liver disease diagnosis and treatment. These topics underline a broad engagement with cancer and liver-related medical conditions.

Among the recent notable papers authored or co-authored by Mitsuo Shimada are:

  • Management of Hepatocellular Carcinoma in Japan: JSH Consensus Statements and Recommendations 2021 Update, 2021, Liver Cancer
  • Clinical Practice Guidelines for Hepatocellular Carcinoma: The Japan Society of Hepatology 2021 version (5th JSH-HCC Guidelines), 2023, Hepatology Research
  • Surgery versus Radiofrequency Ablation for Small Hepatocellular Carcinoma: A Randomized Controlled Trial (SURF Trial), 2021, Liver Cancer
  • Cancer-associated fibroblast-induced M2-polarized macrophages promote hepatocellular carcinoma progression via the plasminogen activator inhibitor-1 pathway, 2021, International Journal of Oncology
  • Cancer-associated adipocytes promote pancreatic cancer progression through SAA1 expression, 2020, Cancer Science

Frequent co-authors in Mitsuo Shimada's publications include:

  • Yuji Morine
  • Yu Saito
  • Masaaki Nishi
  • Tetsuya Ikemoto
  • Chie Takasu

Their works are frequently published in several journals and venues such as:

  • The Journal of Medical Investigation
  • Research Square (Research Square)
  • Journal of Clinical Oncology
  • Gastroenterology
  • Surgery Today

Best Publications

  • A risk model for esophagectomy using data of 5354 patients included in a Japanese nationwide web-based database.

    Hiroya Takeuchi;Hiroaki Miyata;Mitsukazu Gotoh;Yuko Kitagawa

  • Postoperative liver failure after major hepatic resection for hepatocellular carcinoma in the modern era with special reference to remnant liver volume

    Ken Shirabe;Mitsuo Shimada;Tomonobu Gion;Hirofumi Hasegawa

  • A randomised phase III trial comparing gemcitabine with surgery-only in patients with resected pancreatic cancer: Japanese Study Group of Adjuvant Therapy for Pancreatic Cancer

    H Ueno;T Kosuge;Y Matsuyama;J Yamamoto

  • Clinical practice guidelines for hepatocellular carcinoma: The Japan Society of Hepatology 2017 (4th JSH-HCC guidelines) 2019 update.

    Norihiro Kokudo;Nobuyuki Takemura;Kiyoshi Hasegawa;Tadatoshi Takayama

  • Management of Hepatocellular Carcinoma in Japan: JSH Consensus Statements and Recommendations 2021 Update.

    Masatoshi Kudo;Yusuke Kawamura;Kiyoshi Hasegawa;Ryosuke Tateishi

  • Bile Leakage After Hepatic Resection

    Yo Ichi Yamashita;Takayuki Hamatsu;Tatsuya Rikimaru;Shinji Tanaka

  • A pancreaticoduodenectomy risk model derived from 8575 cases from a national single-race population (Japanese) using a web-based data entry system: the 30-day and in-hospital mortality rates for pancreaticoduodenectomy.

    Wataru Kimura;Hiroaki Miyata;Mitsukazu Gotoh;Ichiro Hirai

  • Early experiences of endoscopic procedures in general surgery assisted by a computer-enhanced surgical system

    M. Hashizume;M. Shimada;M. Tomikawa;Y. Ikeda

  • Ischemic injury in liver transplantation: Difference in injury sites between warm and cold ischemia in rats

    Tetsuo Ikeda;Katsuhiko Yanaga;Keiji Kishikawa;Saburo Kakizoe

  • Prognosis of Recurrent Hepatocellular Carcinoma: A 10-Year Surgical Experience in Japan

    Mitsuo Shimada;Kenji Takenaka;Tomonobu Gion;Yuh Fujiwara

  • High expression of Toll-like receptor 4/myeloid differentiation factor 88 signals correlates with poor prognosis in colorectal cancer

    El Wang;ZR Qian;M Nakasono;T Tanahashi

  • Laparoscopic hepatectomy for hepatocellular carcinoma

    M. Shimada;M. Hashizume;S. Maehara;E. Tsujita

  • MR Cholangiopancreatographic Differentiation of Benign and Malignant Intraductal Mucin- Producing Tumors of the Pancreas

    Hiroyuki Irie;Hiroshi Honda;Hitoshi Aibe;Toshiro Kuroiwa

  • Transcriptional repressor snail and progression of human hepatocellular carcinoma.

    Keishi Sugimachi;Shinji Tanaka;Toshifumi Kameyama;Ken-ichi Taguchi

  • Management of hepatocellular carcinoma: Report of Consensus Meeting in the 45th Annual Meeting of the Japan Society of Hepatology (2009)

    Shigeki Arii;Michio Sata;Michiie Sakamoto;Mitsuo Shimada

  • Trends in morbidity and mortality after hepatic resection for hepatocellular carcinoma: an institute's experience with 625 patients.

    Akinobu Taketomi;Dai Kitagawa;Shinji Itoh;Norifumi Harimoto

  • Electroporation-mediated Interleukin-12 Gene Therapy for Hepatocellular Carcinoma in the Mice Model

    Yo-ichi Yamashita;Mitsuo Shimada;Hirofumi Hasegawa;Ryosuke Minagawa

  • Value of lymph node dissection during resection of intrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma

    M Shimada;Y Yamashita;S Aishima;K Shirabe

  • Feasibility of Left Lobe Living Donor Liver Transplantation Between Adults: An 8‐Year, Single‐Center Experience of 107 Cases

    Yuji Soejima;Yuji Soejima;A. Taketomi;Tomoharu Yoshizumi;H. Uchiyama

  • Analysis of prognostic risk factors in hepatic resection for metastatic colorectal carcinoma with special reference to the surgical margin

    K. Shirabe;K. Takenaka;T. Gion;Y. Fujiwara

Frequent Co-Authors

Ken Shirabe
Ken Shirabe Gunma University
Keizo Sugimachi
Keizo Sugimachi Kyushu University
Yoshihiko Maehara
Yoshihiko Maehara Kyushu University
Akinobu Taketomi
Akinobu Taketomi Hokkaido University
Masazumi Tsuneyoshi
Masazumi Tsuneyoshi Kyushu University
Hideo Baba
Hideo Baba Kumamoto University
Norihiro Kokudo
Norihiro Kokudo National Center For Global Health and Medicine
Hiroshi Honda
Hiroshi Honda Kyushu University
Masaki Mori
Masaki Mori Kyushu University
Eiji Takeda
Eiji Takeda University of Tokushima

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