[Metachronous liver metastases treated with repeated liver resections and chemotherapy]

A patient with a radically resected rectosigmoid cancer underwent two liver resections for metachronous metastases. When a third hepatic recurrence was diagnosed, further surgery was considered technically impossible, and the patient was given chemotherapy with 5-fluorouracil and folinic acid. He went into complete remission, and seven and a half years after the resection for colorectal cancer no metastases in the liver can be shown by ultrasonography or CT scan. The patient has normal CEA, and is at work.