1. BRAZILIAN CONSENSUS FOR MULTIMODAL TREATMENT OF COLORECTAL LIVER METASTASES. MODULE 3: CONTROVERSIES AND UNRESECTABLE METASTASES.
- Author
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Torres OJ, Marques MC, Santos FN, Farias IC, Coutinho AK, Oliveira CV, Kalil AN, Mello CA, Kruger JA, Fernandes GD, Quireze C Jr, Murad AM, Silva MJ, Zurstrassen CE, Freitas HC, Cruz MR, Weschenfelder R, Linhares MM, Castro LD, Vollmer C, Dixon E, Ribeiro HS, and Coimbra FJ
- Subjects
- Antineoplastic Agents therapeutic use, Brazil, Combined Modality Therapy, Embolization, Therapeutic, Humans, Colorectal Neoplasms pathology, Liver Neoplasms secondary, Liver Neoplasms therapy
- Abstract
In the last module of this consensus, controversial topics were discussed. Management of the disease after progression during first line chemotherapy was the first discussion. Next, the benefits of liver resection in the presence of extra-hepatic disease were debated, as soon as, the best sequence of treatment. Conversion chemotherapy in the presence of unresectable liver disease was also discussed in this module. Lastly, the approach to the unresectable disease was also discussed, focusing in the best chemotherapy regimens and hole of chemo-embolization., Competing Interests: none
- Published
- 2016
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