Colorectal cancer patients who had surgery to remove tumors in both lungs and liver had a good chance of being alive five years later.
Surgeons in a single hospital in Seoul, South Korea reviewed cases where patients had lung and liver tumors removed between 1995 and 2004. They found 32 colorectal cancer patients who’d had operations at both sites.
After five years more than sixty percent of patients who’d had surgery were still alive. The average time before any cancer returned was 44 months. None died during or after surgery.
Won-Suk Lee and colleagues concluded,
An aggressive surgical treatment of selected colorectal cancer patients with lung and liver metastases resulted in prolonged survival. The 5-year survival rate of 60.8% with no perioperative mortality was observed in our study.
SOURCE: Lee et al. Journal of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, published early online, December 16, 2007.
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