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We report two cases of liver metastases from colorectal and anal cancers after the failure of systemic chemotherapies that were successfully treated with a combination therapy of transarterial chemoembolization using irinotecan-loaded drug-eluting beads and hepatic arterial infusion chemotherapy. In both cases, hepatic arterial infusion chemotherapy was performed as maintenance therapy after irinotecan-loaded drug-eluting beads. Irinotecan at a dose of 120 mg was loaded on drug delivery beads for irinotecan-loaded drug-eluting bead-transarterial chemoembolization. A weekly high-dose 5-fluorouracil regimen (1000 mg/m2/5 h) was used for hepatic arterial infusion chemotherapy. The liver metastases shrank remarkably in both cases, and progression-free survivals of 13 and 9 months, respectively, were obtained without any severe adverse events.
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We designed and synthesized 4-dodecyloxybenzenediazonium tetrafluoroborate (1), which preferentially reacts with metallic single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWNTs) by kinetic control. We first determined the suitable experimental conditions for the preferential reaction of 1 with individually dissolved SWNTs by monitoring the decrease in absorbance for the metallic SWNT in the range of 400-650 nm in the absorption spectrum of the SWNTs. The reacted SWNTs were thoroughly rinsed with THF to obtain THF-insoluble SWNTs. The Raman spectrum of the THF-insoluble SWNTs showed a strong peak near 180 cm(-1), which corresponds to a semiconducting breathing band. The metallic breathing bands (approximately 220 cm(-1)) and Breit-Wingner-Fano (BWF) modes (1520 cm(-1)) corresponding to the metallic SWNTs were much weaker than those of the pristine SWNTs. We also confirmed that metallic peaks in the range of 400-650 nm in the absorption spectrum of THF-insoluble SWNTs that were individually dissolved in an aqueous micelle of sodium cholate were almost nondetectable. All the results indicate that the THF-insoluble SWNTs are semiconducting.