[A case of prednisolone therapy for radiation-induced hemorrhagic cystitis].

Hemorrhagic cystitis resulting from radiation to pelvic visceral malignant lesions often might be incurable and there have been no established definitive treatment. We experienced a case with severe radiation-induced hemorrhagic cystitis refractory to conventional therapy. The treatment with oral administration of prednisolone was performed and obtained a successful result. Gross hematuria disappeared in 2 weeks in this case. This experience suggested that oral administration of prednisolone could be considered the treatment for patients with radiation-induced hemorrhagic cystitis when usual treatments including transurethral electro-coagulation are unsuccessful.

Dramatic remission of hormone refractory prostate cancer achieved with extract of the mushroom, Phellinus linteus.

At present, there is no distinctly effective treatment for hormone refractory prostate cancer. We describe a hormone refractory prostate cancer patient with rapidly progressive bone metastasis who showed dramatic response to intake of an extract from the mushroom, Phellinus linteus.

Real-time capturing of the nuclear wave-packet shape in self-trapped excitons.

We measured the time evolutions of the luminescence spectra in a quasi-1D halogen-bridged platinum complex [Pt(en)(2)][Pt(en)(2)Br(2)](ClO4)(4) with a 50 fs resolution up-conversion spectroscopy and succeeded in real-time visualization of the shape of the wave packet (WP) propagating on the adiabatic potential surface of a self-trapped exciton. The behavior of the WP is in excellent agreement with a calculation based on a harmonic oscillator. We have found that the damping of the WP oscillation is highly nonexponential.