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The totally implantable Infusion Pump in treatment of metastatic colorectal cancer

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Diseases of the Colon & Rectum

Abstract

Final evaluation of the Infusaid Pump system (Infusaid Corporation, Sharon, MA) for administration of regional chemotherapy must await completion of trials prospectively comparing survival of matched patients treated in this manner and patients treated by traditional systemic chemotherapy. A review of the current medical literature confirms our personal experience that response rates within the liver are high. Survival reports appear encouraging but this may represent an artifact in patient selection. An algorithm is presented to offer surgeons a reasonable and conservative means for selection of those colorectal cancer patients with metastatic involvement of the liver who are most likely to benefit from this system of drug delivery.

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  1. 635 May Street, 07090, Westfield, New Jersey

    Gregory C. Oliver M.D.

  2. Department of Surgery, The George Washington, University Medical Center, Washington, D.C.

    Gregory C. Oliver M.D. & Paul E. Shorb Jr. M.D.

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Read at the Joint Meeting of the American Society of Colon and Rectal Surgeons with the Section of Colo-Proctology, Royal Society of Medicine, and the Section of Colonic and Rectal Surgery, Royal Australasian College of Surgeons, New Orleans, Louisiana, May 6 to 11, 1984.

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Oliver, G.C., Shorb, P.E. The totally implantable Infusion Pump in treatment of metastatic colorectal cancer. Dis Colon Rectum 28, 18–23 (1985). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02553900

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