Outcomes of Patients With Colorectal Liver Metastasis in the Developing World: Is Liver Transplantation for Unresectable Liver Metastasis, the Next Logical Step?

ABSTRACT:

Background

While half of the patients with colorectal cancer develop metastasis, some 20% develop liver-only disease, and 10% of patients with unresectable liver disease live for 5 years. This study audits the outcomes of patients with colorectal liver metastasis to identify patients with unresectable liver metastasis eligible for a liver transplant.

Method

All patients with colorectal liver metastasis, irrespective of the presence of metastasis at other sites, registered between January 1, 2018, and December 31, 2019, were included in this retrospective audit. Patients in whom R0 Resection with adequate future liver remnant was not possible even after downstaging with chemotherapy were deemed unresectable. Overall survival was calculated using the Kaplan-Meier analysis. Pat

SUBMITTER: M J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10483002 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Sep-Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature