Professor TAKAYAMA Tetsuji

  We give many lectures and practical trainings to graduate students in medical oncology as well as to medical students in Tokushima University. We also treat many cancer patients including gastrointestinal cancers, pancreatic cancers, lung cancers, etc.. Many patients with hepatocellular cancer are treated by non-invasive interventional therapies such as radiofrequency ablation and intraarterial embolization. We have the following research projects.

1. Analysis of molecular mechanism of invasion and metastasis of cancers.
2. Identification of drug resistance factors in cancer patients who receive anti-cancer reagents.
3. Analysis of molecular mechanism of carcinogenesis using organoid cultured cancer cells.
4. Identification of biomarker in cancer treatment for molecular targeted therapy.