Is Yttrium-90 Radioembolization a Viable Treatment Option for Unresectable, Chemorefractory Colorectal Cancer Liver Metastases? A Large Single-Center Experience of 302 Patients

Annals of Surgical Oncology

Volumn 22, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 794-802

  Saxena, Akshat ^a,b   Meteling, Baerbel ^a   Kapoor, Jada ^b   Golani, Sanjeev ^a   Morris, David L ^b   Bester, Lourens ^a  

^a ST VINCENT S HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^b ST GEORGE HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; HEMOGLOBIN; YTTRIUM 90; YTTRIUM;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ADULT; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL EMBOLISM; ASCITES; BILIARY TRACT DISEASE; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER FATIGUE; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER PROGNOSIS; CANCER SURVIVAL; COLORECTAL LIVER METASTASIS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DYSPNEA; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GALLBLADDER DISEASE; GASTRITIS; HEPATITIS; HUMAN; INTESTINE ULCER; LUNG DISEASE; LUNG EMBOLISM; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NAUSEA AND VOMITING; PLEURA EFFUSION; PREOPERATIVE PERIOD; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RADIOEMBOLIZATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SOLID TUMOR; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TUMOR VOLUME; AGED; BRACHYTHERAPY; CANCER STAGING; CLINICAL TRIAL; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; DRUG RESISTANCE; LIVER NEOPLASMS; MORTALITY; PATHOLOGY; PROGNOSIS; SAFETY; SALVAGE THERAPY; SECONDARY; SURVIVAL RATE; VERY ELDERLY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BRACHYTHERAPY; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; DRUG RESISTANCE, NEOPLASM; EMBOLIZATION, THERAPEUTIC; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; LIVER NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM STAGING; PROGNOSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SAFETY; SALVAGE THERAPY; SURVIVAL RATE; YTTRIUM RADIOISOTOPES;

EID: 84925003255     PISSN: 10689265     EISSN: 15344681     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1245/s10434-014-4164-x     Document Type: Article

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