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A potential role for perioperative hepatic arterial infusion chemotherapy?
Author(s) -
Espat N. Joseph
Publication year - 2004
Publication title -
cancer
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.052
H-Index - 304
eISSN - 1097-0142
pISSN - 0008-543X
DOI - 10.1002/cncr.11941
Subject(s) - medicine , chemotherapy , stage (stratigraphy) , perioperative , colorectal cancer , hepatic arterial infusion , metastasis , colon carcinoma , surgery , oncology , cancer , biology , paleontology
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.