A potential role for perioperative hepatic arterial infusion chemotherapy?

✍ Scribed by N. Joseph Espat

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 2004
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 48 KB
• Volume: 100
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0008-543X
• DOI: 10.1002/cncr.11941

✦ Synopsis

The liver is the most common site of distant failure and cause of disease‐related mortality in patients with advanced colon carcinoma. In the study by Sadahiro et al., a randomized controlled study evaluated the effects of prophylactic hepatic arterial infusion chemotherapy for the prevention of liver metastasis in patients with TNM Stage II or Stage III colon carcinoma.

See also pages 590–7.