"Combined treatment" in the liver metastases of colorectal cancer
Simion, S.; Popa, B.
Chirurgia 93(2): 131-134
1998
ISSN/ISBN: 1221-9118 PMID: 9656603 Document Number: 494285
Patients with liver metastasis after colo-rectal cancers are, from the point of une of their disease evolution in the final stadium (the IV th. stadium). Hence, we consider the attempt for liver metastasis treatment, as being desperate experiments to extend the patient's life, taking high risks and having chances of immediate failure. Since 1995 me've started a study about patients operated for colo-rectal cancers that will stand transarterial chemoembolization of their hepatic metastasis, 2-4 weeks before the surgical intervention for hepatectomy. We expose 17 cases to which we performed such a combined therapy, between 1995-1997. We had to postoperative death after major hepatectomies. The other patients are survived by our clinics.