Takashi Kawahara

ORCID: 0000-0002-7049-3379 · 2 papers in corpus

observational 2026

Fewer Injections and Lower Drug Costs With Long-Acting GnRH Depot Formulations: A Nationwide Analysis of 2.3 Million Patient-Years in Japan

Cancer reports (Hoboken, N.J.) ·doi:10.1002/cnr2.70688

BACKGROUND: Androgen deprivation therapy (ADT) is the base of treatment for prostate cancer, and gonadotropin-releasing hormone (GnRH) drugs are given as depot injections. Long-acting formulations may reduce the number of injections and the…

nonrandomized-trial 2016

Oral contraceptive therapy reduces serum relaxin-2 in elite female athletes

Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology Research ·doi:10.1111/jog.13226

AIM: Recent investigations have demonstrated that athletes with high relaxin-2 levels have a high risk of anterior cruciate ligament injuries, while athletes taking oral contraceptives (OC) have low relaxin-2 levels. It has not yet been cla…