""Liver fist approach"" in the management of synchronous liver metastases from colorectal cancer: Preliminary non-randomized study results
2015
Abstract
Introduction: Liver metastases are diagnosed in 60% of patients with colorectal cancer, both at the time of diagnosis or later in the course of their management. Surgical treatment is the sole potentially curable method with 5-year overall survival of approximately 50%.
However, only less than 20% of patients underwent liver resection. A joint effort of medical oncologists and surgeons is to increase the numbers of resected patients.
The ""liver first approach"" (LFA) is one of approaches aimed at increasing resecability. The authors present their preliminary results using this method.