Interventional oncology for liver and lung metastases from colorectal cancer: The current state of the art

T. De Baere, L. Tselikas, E. Pearson, S. Yevitch, V. Boige, D. Malka, M. Ducreux, D. Goere, D. Elias, F. Nguyen, F. Deschamps

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Abstract

Interventional oncology is developing rapidly as a result of advances in imaging and medical devices. Although the treatments offered are recent and not yet fully validated in the guidelines, they allow non-invasive curative treatments to be offered to a growing number of patients. When it is used in a highly selected patients with less than three metastases under 2-3cm in size, percutaneous tumor ablation offers local efficacy similar to excision surgery with considerable sparing of the parenchyma, both for lung and liver metastases. Hepatic intra-arterial therapies (chemotherapy, radioembolization, and chemoembolization) are now g-salvageg methods after chemotherapy has failed and are being assessed in earlier lines of treatment.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)647-654
Number of pages8
JournalDiagnostic and interventional imaging
Volume96
Issue number6
DOIs
StatePublished - Jun 2015
Externally publishedYes

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© 2015 Éditions françaises de radiologie.

Keywords

  • Chemotherapy
  • Colorectal cancer
  • Image-guided surgery
  • Metastases
  • Radiofrequency

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