This study comes out from the M.D Anderson Cancer Center. The aim was to compare Liver resection to Radiofrequency ablation in the treatment of colorectal liver metastases (CRLM). I think it is a very interesting study, because it embraces what other previous studies have been showing, this is, that overall survival has been increasing with hepatic resection in patients with CRLM.They concluded that The survival rate following HR of solitary colorectal liver metastasis exceeds 70% at 5 years. Radiofrequency ablation for solitary metastasis is associated with a markedly higher LR rate and shorter recurrence-free and overall survival rates compared with HR, even when small lesions ( 3 cm) are considered.
ARCHIVES OF SURGERY. VOL 141, MAY 2006.
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