Bolnica s primarno razsejanim karcinomom danke z zasevki v jetrih (original) (raw)

2013

Abstract

Colorectal cancer (CC) is the most common cancer in Slovenia. According to the Cancer Registry of the Republic of Slovenia, a total of 1,450 people were diagnosed with colorectal cancer in Slovenia in 2008(1). The increasing incidence also means increasing morbidity, as in half of the patients, the disease is diagnosed when already at an advanced stage. Metastatic disease is incurable, but the prognosis and the survival of these patients have improved considerably, as in the last decade, with the use of new drugs, namely a combination of cytostatics (capecitabine, irinotecan, oxaliplatin) and target drugs (cetuximab, bevacizumab, panitumumab) we have achieved a median survival of more than 30 months(2). When combining systemic and surgical treatment in patients with liver metastases, in particular if these are solitary metastases, the 5-year survival can exceed 50%. In this paper, we present a case of a patient with primary metastatic rectal carcinoma with metastases in the liver. W...

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