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Colorectal cancer surveillance post-surgery
A Huang1, K S Hindle, G Tsavellas
1Department of Academic Surgery, Chelsea & Westminster Hospital, London SW10 9NH.
Hospital Medicine (London, England : 1998)
|September 4, 2001
Abstract:
Current surveillance methods for detecting recurrence after apparently curative colorectal cancer resection are insensitive and have not been shown to significantly improve survival. New surveillance methods based on molecular, flow cytometric and immunohistochemical detection of small numbers of tumour cells may prove more sensitive in detecting early recurrent cancer and may improve outcome.