Liver Metastasis

Reports Outline Liver Metastasis Study Results from Gifu University

Published in Medical Devices and Surgical Technology Week, April 22nd, 2012

2012 APR 22 -- According to the authors of a study from Gifu, Japan, "Surgical indications for resection of synchronous metastasis from colorectal cancer (CRC) and the optimal timing of hepatectomy are still controversial and widely debated. Synchronous and multiple metastatic liver tumors were detected in 57 patients since May 2005."

"Our treatment policy was to perform hepatectomy if the resection could be done with no limit on size and number of tumors. However, if curative resection could not be done, chemotherapy was begun and timing for the possibility of a radical operation was planned immediately. In 37 patients whose tumors were located only in the...

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