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Treatment of colorectal metastases: surgery, cryotherapy, or radiofrequency ablation
Abstract
The liver is the most common site of metastases from colorectal cancer. There has therefore been growing interest in how liver metastases may be ablated. The most common techniques for ablation of liver metastases are surgical resection, cryotherapy, and increasingly in recent years, radiofrequency ablation.
- colorectal cancer
- liver metastases
- cryotherapy
- radiofrequence ablation
- 5-FU
- 5-fluorouracil
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Conflict of interest
Professor Primrose has served on an advisory board for Sanofi-Synthelabo, the manufacturers of oxaliplatin.