[Perioperative Chemotherapies for Patients with Colorectal Liver Metastasis]

Gan To Kagaku Ryoho. 2020 Apr;47(4):574-577.
[Article in Japanese]

Abstract

Perioperative chemotherapies are expected to improve prognosis of patients with colorectal liver metastasis(CRLM). In patients with a resectable CRLM, the adjuvant chemotherapy with 5-FU/LV effectively prolongs DFS or RFS. In patients with unresectable CRLM, a neoadjuvant chemotherapy with high response rate and high liver resection rate, such as FOLFOX(or CAPOX, SOX)plus bevacizumab, FOLFOX/FOLFIRI plus cetuximab, or FOLFOXIRI plus bevacizumab, could be an optimal regimen for the conversion therapy.

MeSH terms

  • Antineoplastic Combined Chemotherapy Protocols / therapeutic use*
  • Bevacizumab
  • Colorectal Neoplasms* / drug therapy
  • Combined Modality Therapy
  • Fluorouracil
  • Humans
  • Leucovorin
  • Liver Neoplasms* / drug therapy
  • Liver Neoplasms* / secondary
  • Liver Neoplasms* / surgery
  • Organoplatinum Compounds
  • Oxaliplatin

Substances

  • Organoplatinum Compounds
  • Oxaliplatin
  • Bevacizumab
  • Leucovorin
  • Fluorouracil