title: Survival among patients with liver metastases from cancer of the colon and rectum.
abstract: Factors influencing spontaneous survival in 49 patients with liver metastases after cancer in colon/rectum were evaluated. In addition the same evaluation was performed in 12 patients treated with 5-Fluoro-uracil systemically of intraarterially in the hepatic artery. Alkaline phosphatases, elevated more than 4 times normal values, elevated serum alanine aminotransferase, or jaundice are all unfavorable prognostic signs in the spontaneous group. In the 5-Fluoro-uracil treated group only elevated serum dilirubin had the same unfavorable prognostic sign. Even though it seems to be an increased survival time in the 5-Fluoro-uracil treated group it is concluded that metastases to the liver from cancer in colon/rectum assume to be more or less resistent to 5-Fluoro-uracil.
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000410:Alanine Transaminase / Q000097:blood; D000469:Alkaline Phosphatase / Q000097:blood; D001663:Bilirubin / Q000097:blood; D003110:Colonic Neoplasms / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000401:mortality*; D005260:Female; D005472:Fluorouracil / Q000627:therapeutic use; D006801:Humans; D008113:Liver Neoplasms / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000401:mortality*; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009362:Neoplasm Metastasis; D011379:Prognosis; D012004:Rectal Neoplasms / Q000401:mortality*
chemical_list: D000410:Alanine Transaminase; D000469:Alkaline Phosphatase; D001663:Bilirubin; D005472:Fluorouracil