Open AccessInfluence of primary tumor location and resection on survival in metastatic colorectal cancer
Author(s) -
Zoé Tharin,
Julie Blanc,
Ikram Charifi Alaoui,
Aurélie Bertaut,
François Ghiringhelli
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
world journal of gastrointestinal oncology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.924
H-Index - 26
ISSN - 1948-5204
DOI - 10.4251/wjgo.v12.i11.1296
Subject(s) - medicine , colorectal cancer , bevacizumab , oxaliplatin , proportional hazards model , hazard ratio , oncology , propensity score matching , primary tumor , multivariate analysis , cancer , stage (stratigraphy) , metastasis , chemotherapy , confidence interval , paleontology , biology
Patients with right sided colorectal cancer are known to have a poorer prognosis than patients with left sided colorectal cancer, whatever the cancer stage. To this day, primary tumor resection (PTR) is still controversial in a metastatic, non resectable setting.