Colorectal liver metastases; the current scenario.
Colorectal cancer is the most common gastrointestinal malignancy. When metastases occurs, it most frequently occurs in the liver. Median survival without any treatment is poor, and until recently only a subset of patients were amenable to any form of surgical therapy. The following article aims to examine recent strategies used to increase the cohort of patients coming to curative oncological surgery.
Department of General Surgery, University Hospital Aintree, Liverpool, UK.
Samir
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Pathak
Graeme J
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Poston