title: Metastatic Colorectal Cancer: Lessons Learned, Future Possibilities.
abstract: Survival of patients with metastatic colorectal cancer has dramatically improved over the past 20 years, primarily because physicians have become adept at using the many regimens approved for this patient population. Future advances may come from understanding molecular subtypes, finding and treating new actionable mutations, and harnessing the immune system.
authors.affiliation: Presented by Alan P. Venook, MD, Department of Medicine, UCSF Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center, San Francisco, California.
authors.forename: Alan P
authors.initials: AP
authors.lastname: Venook
mesh_terms: D015179:Colorectal Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology; D006801:Humans; D009362:Neoplasm Metastasis