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- Title
Conversion of locally inoperable primary rectal cancer with multiple liver metastases to an option for cure after local down-staging and hepatic arterial infusion chemotherapy.
- Authors
Kornmann, M.; Link, K. H.
- Abstract
Aims. This case report presents a patient with local unresectable primary rectal cancer and multiple synchronous liver metastases. Methods. The treatment consisted of primary tumor resection after down-staging by local irradiation followed by hepatic arterial infusion chemotherapy. Results. The patient is now without any signs of tumor growth 44 months after beginning of treatment.
- Subjects
RECTAL cancer; METASTASIS; LIVER cancer; PATHOLOGY; CANCER invasiveness; DRUG therapy
- Publication
Langenbeck's Archives of Surgery, 2002, Vol 387, Issue 2, p90
- ISSN
1435-2443
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s00423-002-0295-9