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Radiofrequency Ablation in Treating Colorectal Cancer Patients with Liver Metastases
Chuan Xu1, Xin-En Huang, Peng-Hua Lv
1Department of Interventional Radiology, Subei People's Hospital of Jiangsu Province, Clinical Hospital of Yangzhou University, Yangzhou, China E-mail : huangxinen06@163.com; why77@sina.com.
Purpose:
To evaluate efficacy of radiofrequency ablation (RFA) in treating colorectal cancer patients with liver metastases.
Methods:
During January 2010 to April 2012, 56 colorectal cancer patients with liver metastases underwent RFA. CT scans were obtained one month after RFA for all patients to evaluate tumor response. (CR+PR+SD)/n was used to count the disease control rates (DCR). Survival data of 1, 2 and 3 years were obtained from follow up.
Results:
Patients were followed for 10 to 40 months after RFA (mean time, 25±10 months). Median survival time was 27 months. The 1, 2, 3 year survival rate were 80.4%, 71.4%, 41%, 1 % respectively. 3-year survival time for patients with CR or PR after RFA was 68.8% and 4.3% respectively, the difference was statistically significant. The number of CR, PR, SD and PD in our study was 13, 23, 11 and 9 respectively.
Conclusions:
RFA could be an effective method for treating colorectal cancer patients with liver metastases, and prolong survival time, especially for metastatic lesions less than or equal to 3 cm. But this result should be confirmed by randomized controlled studies.
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