Publication

Original Articles

2024

• "Prognostic significance of absolute lymphocyte count in patients with metastatic renal cell carcinoma receiving first-line combination immunotherapies: results from the International Metastatic Renal Cell Carcinoma Database Consortium"
  Kosuke Takemura, Takeshi Yuasa, Audreylie Lemelin, Evan Ferrier, J Connor Wells, Eddy Saad, Renee Maria Saliby, Naveen S Basappa, Lori A Wood, Even Jude, Sumanta K Pal, Frede Donskov, Benoit Beuselinck, Bernadett Szabados, Thomas Powles, Rana R McKay, Georges Gebrael, Neeraj Agarwal, Toni K Choueiri, Daniel Y C Heng.
  ESMO Open. 9, 7, 103606 (2024).

  • DOI: 10.1016/j.esmoop.2024.103606.
• "Outcomes of patients with brain metastases from renal cell carcinoma receiving first-line therapies: Results from the International Metastatic Renal Cell Carcinoma Database Consortium"
  Kosuke Takemura, Audreylie Lemelin, Matthew S Ernst, J Connor Wells, Renee Maria Saliby, Talal El Zarif, Chris Labaki, Naveen S Basappa, Bernadett Szabados, Thomas Powles, Ian D Davis, Lori A Wood, Aly-Khan A Lalani, Rana R McKay, Jae-Lyun Lee, Luis Meza, Sumanta K Pal, Frede Donskov, Takeshi Yuasa, Benoit Beuselinck, Georges Gebrael, Neeraj Agarwal, Toni K Choueiri, Daniel Y C Heng.
  Eur Urol. Online ahead of print. (2024).

  • DOI: 10.1016/j.eururo.2024.01.006

2023

• "Trends in health care spending on kidney cancer in the United States, 1996–2016"
  Kosuke Takemura, Newaz Shubidito Ahmed, Igor Stukalin, Mehul Gupta, Christopher Ma, Daniel Y C Heng.
  Cancer. 129, 14, 2161-2168 (2023).

  • DOI: 10.1002/cncr.34770
• "Characterization of patients with metastatic renal cell carcinoma undergoing deferred, upfront, or no cytoreductive nephrectomy in the era of combination immunotherapy: Results from the International Metastatic Renal Cell Carcinoma Database Consortium"
  Kosuke Takemura, Matthew S Ernst, Vishal Navani, J Connor Wells, Ziad Bakouny, Frede Donskov, Naveen S Basappa, Lori A Wood, Luis Meza, Sumanta K Pal, Bernadett Szabados, Thomas Powles, Benoit Beuselinck, Rana R McKay, Jae-Lyun Lee, D Scott Ernst, Anil Kapoor, Takeshi Yuasa, Toni K Choueiri, Daniel Y C Heng.
  Eur Urol Oncol. 7, 3, 501-508 (2023).

  • DOI: 10.1016/j.euo.2023.10.002
• "Characterization of patients with metastatic renal cell carcinoma experiencing complete response to first-line therapies: Results from the International Metastatic Renal Cell Carcinoma Database Consortium"
  Kosuke Takemura, Vishal Navani, Matthew S Ernst, J Connor Wells, Luis Meza, Sumanta K Pal, Jae-Lyun Lee, Haoran Li, Neeraj Agarwal, Ajjai S Alva, Aaron R Hansen, Naveen S Basappa, Bernadett Szabados, Thomas Powles, Ben Tran, Christopher M Hocking, Benoit Beuselinck, Takeshi Yuasa, Toni K Choueiri, Daniel Y C Heng.
  J Urol. 209, 4, 701-709 (2023).

  • DOI: 10.1097/JU.0000000000003132

2022

• "Impact of body mass index on survival outcomes of patients with metastatic renal cell carcinoma in the immuno-oncology era: A systematic review and meta-analysis"
  Kosuke Takemura, Satoru Yonekura, Laura E Downey, Dimitris Evangelopoulos, Daniel Y C Heng.
  Eur Urol Open Sci. 39, 62-71 (2022).

  • DOI: 10.1016/j.euros.2022.03.002

2021

• "Impact of serum γ-glutamyltransferase on overall survival in men with metastatic castration- resistant prostate cancer treated with docetaxel"
  Minami Une, Kosuke Takemura (joint first author), Kentaro Inamura, Hiroshi Fukushima, Masaya Ito, Shuichiro Kobayashi, Takeshi Yuasa, Junji Yonese, Philip G Board, Fumitaka Koga.
  Cancers (Basel). 13, 21, 5587 (2021).

  • DOI: 10.3390/cancers13215587
• "Seminal vesicle cysts with upper urinary tract abnormalities: A single-center case series of pediatric Zinner syndrome"
  Kosuke Takemura, Atsuko Sato, Yosuke Morizawa, Ryohei Kufukihara, Shun Iwasa, Hiroyuki Satoh.
  Urology. 149, e44-e47 (2021).

  • DOI: 10.1016/j.urology.2020.09.024

2020

• "Prognostic significance of the controlling nutritional status (CONUT) score in patients with advanced renal cell carcinoma treated with nivolumab after failure of prior tyrosine kinase inhibitors"
  Kosuke Takemura, Takeshi Yuasa, Ryo Fujiwara, Masaya Ito, Hiroaki Suzuki, Junji Yonese, Fumitaka Koga.
  J Urol. 204, 6, 1166-1172 (2020).

  • DOI: 10.1097/JU.0000000000001196
• "Impact of serum γ-glutamyltransferase on overall survival in patients with metastatic renal cell carcinoma in the era of targeted therapy"
  Kosuke Takemura, Takeshi Yuasa, Kentaro Inamura, Gulanbar Amori, Fumitaka Koga, Philip G Board, Junji Yonese.
  Target Oncol. 15, 3, 347-356 (2020).

  • DOI: 10.1007/s11523-020-00719-9

2019

• "Serum γ-glutamyltransferase as a prognostic biomarker in metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer treated with enzalutamide"
  Kosuke Takemura, Masaya Ito, Yasukazu Nakanishi, Madoka Kataoka, Kazumasa Sakamoto, Hiroaki Suzuki, Ken-Ichi Tobisu, Fumitaka Koga.
  Anticancer Res. 39, 10, 5773-5780 (2019).

  • DOI: 10.21873/anticanres.13780
• "Multifocal synchronous upper urinary tract carcinosarcoma (sarcomatoid carcinoma) with rhabdomyoblastic differentiation"
  Kosuke Takemura, Toru Motoi, Akiko Tonooka, Nobuaki Funata, Yasukazu Nakanishi, Madoka Kataoka, Masaya Ito, Kazumasa Sakamoto, Hiroaki Suzuki, Ken-Ichi Tobisu, Fumitaka Koga.
  Int J Surg Pathol. 27, 5, 547-552 (2019).

  • DOI: 10.1177/1066896919828111
• "Prognostic significance of serum γ-glutamyltransferase in patients with advanced urothelial carcinoma"
  Kosuke Takemura, Hiroshi Fukushima, Masaya Ito, Madoka Kataoka, Yasukazu Nakanishi, Kazumasa Sakamoto, Hiroaki Suzuki, Ken-Ichi Tobisu, Fumitaka Koga.
  Urol Oncol. 37, 2, 108-115 (2019).

  • DOI: 10.1016/j.urolonc.2018.11.002

2018

• "Vesical fungus balls (fungal bezoars) by Candida albicans mimicking urothelial carcinoma in a patient with diabetic neurogenic bladder"
  Kosuke Takemura, Ryoji Takazawa, Yusuke Kohno, Satoshi Yoshida, Hiroyuki Kato, Toshihiko Tsujii.
  Urol Case Rep. 18, 50-51 (2018).

  • DOI: 10.1016/j.eucr.2018.03.005

2017

• "A case of well-differentiated liposarcoma in the right scrotum, diagnosed after local tumor excision"
  Kosuke Takemura, Toshihiro Yoshimura, Shikofumi Tei, Tetsuo Yoshikawa.
  Jpn J Urol. 108, 4, 220-224 (2017).

  • DOI: 10.5980/jpnjurol.108.220

2014

• "γ-Glutamylcyclotransferase as a novel immunohistochemical biomarker for the malignancy of esophageal squamous tumors"
  Kosuke Takemura, Hiroshi Kawachi, Yoshinobu Eishi, Keisuke Kitagaki, Mariko Negi, Maki Kobayashi, Keisuke Uchida, Jun Inoue, Johji Inazawa, Tatsuyuki Kawano, Philip G Board.
  Hum Pathol. 45, 331-341 (2014).

  • DOI: 10.1016/j.humpath.2013.09.009