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Perioperative chemotherapy and liver resection for hepatic metastases of colorectal cancer

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  • Therapeutic strategies for hepatic metastasis of colorectal cancer: 2011 Update
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Journal of Hepato-Biliary-Pancreatic Sciences

Abstract

Surgical resection has played a major role in the treatment for colorectal liver metastases. The safety and efficacy of surgery for liver metastasis are obvious, although there are some differences between the western countries and Japan concerning the surgical indication, procedures, timing of chemotherapies in a perioperative period, and treatment of a primary disease. In future, long-term outcomes after surgical resection for colorectal liver metastases would be expected to be prolonged by combination of surgery and chemotherapies.

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    Kiyoshi Hasegawa, Michiro Takahashi, Masaru Ohba, Junichi Kaneko, Taku Aoki, Yoshihiro Sakamoto, Yasuhiko Sugawara & Norihiro Kokudo

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Hasegawa, K., Takahashi, M., Ohba, M. et al. Perioperative chemotherapy and liver resection for hepatic metastases of colorectal cancer. J Hepatobiliary Pancreat Sci 19, 503–508 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00534-012-0509-7

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