Good DAy All,
HOpe the following information will be of some use and educational.
Hepatic Chemotherapy Improves Outcome After Resection Of Liver
Metastases
WESTPORT, Dec 30 (Reuters Health) - A combination of hepatic
arterial infusion of floxuridine and intravenous fluorouracil
improves 2 year outcome in patients who undergo resection of
hepatic metastases from colorectal cancer, scientists from the
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York report. Dr.
Nancy Kemeny and colleagues describe their study in the December
30th issue of The New England Journal of Medicine. The
researchers administered six cycles of hepatic arterial infusion
with floxuridine and dexamethasone plus intravenous fluorouracil,
with or without leucovorin, to 74 patients beginning 4 weeks
after resection of hepatic metastases from colorectal cancer.
http://ipn.intelihealth.com/ipn/ihtIPN?st=7189&c=260980
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God Bless All,
marty auslander
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