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In selected patients with metastatic colorectal cancer (mCRC), resection of liver metastasis (LM) is the only potential curative option. The geriatric populat...
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Liquid biopsy is a tool that enables identification of diagnostic, prognostic and predictive biomarkers of response to treatment in circulating tumour DNA (ct...
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Right-sided colorectal cancer (RCRC) is associated with several negative clinicopathological and molecular features and also with worse survival than left-sid...
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Colorectal cancer (CRC) is the leading cause of cancer-related death worldwide. Rectal cancer constitutes around one-third of all CRCs. The current standard o...
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Liver is the most common site of metastases from CRC. Up to 70% of CRC patients develop liver metastases in their course of disease. Surgical resection is the...
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Fluoropyrimidines are a mainstay in the treatment of gastrointestinal tumours (GIT), although they can sometimes produce severe toxicity, usually related to p...
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Self-expandable metal stents (SEMS) can be applied to relieve colorectal obstruction secondary to extracolonic malignancy (ECM), but data regarding this issue...
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Insulinoma is uncommon endocrine tumors that have a prevalence of around 1 per 100,000 person-years. However; they represent the most common functioning endoc...
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Hypersensitivity reactions (HSR) to oxaliplatin can lead to the suspension of potentially effective treatments. An alternative approach, such as the use of de...
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The aim was to investigate if mutational analysis of circulating DNA (cfDNA) in plasma is feasible for selection of patients with metastatic colorectal cancer...