Is there a reliable adjuvant (intraoperative) chemotherapy of colorectal cancer?
Hossfeld, D.K.
Langenbecks Archiv für Chirurgie. Suppl Ii Verhandlungen der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Chirurgie. Deutsche Gesellschaft für Chirurgie. Kongress 1990: 175-178
1990
ISSN/ISBN: 0173-0541 PMID: 1983550 Document Number: 349196
On the basis of a considerable number of carefully designed, representative, and controlled studies adjuvant chemotherapy was considered uneffective for patients with colorectal cancer. In the light of the very recently published results obtained with the combination of 5-fluorouracil plus levamisole this option must now be reconsidered. However, the statement of the NCI that all patients with Dukes'C cancer should be offered this combination appears premature.