Treatment of liver-limited metastatic colorectal cancer

Cancer Journal

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 235-240

  Hubbard, Joleen M ^a   Alberts, Steven R ^a  

^a MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

Author keywords

Adjuvant chemotherapy; Colorectal liver metastases; Liver neoplasms; Neoadjuvant chemotherapy

Indexed keywords

BEVACIZUMAB; CETUXIMAB; EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR RECEPTOR KINASE INHIBITOR; FLUOROURACIL; FOLINIC ACID; OXALIPLATIN; PANITUMUMAB;

CANCER ADJUVANT THERAPY; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER COMBINATION CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER SURGERY; CHEMOEMBOLIZATION; CLINICAL TRIAL; COLORECTAL CANCER; CYTOTOXICITY; HEPATIC ARTERY; HUMAN; LIVER METASTASIS; LIVER RESECTION; LIVER TOXICITY; MULTIPLE CYCLE TREATMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SYSTEMIC THERAPY;

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS; BIOLOGICAL FACTORS; CHEMOEMBOLIZATION, THERAPEUTIC; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; LIVER; LIVER NEOPLASMS;

EID: 77953638411     PISSN: 15289117     EISSN: 1540336X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/PPO.0b013e3181e075e9     Document Type: Review

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