Year 2024 / Volume 116 / Number 2
Editorial
Liver transplantation in colorectal metastases. Is there an indication for this procedure?

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DOI: 10.17235/reed.2023.9873/2023

Javier A. Cienfuegos, Gabriel Zozaya, Fernando Rotellar,

Abstract
Almost 25 % of patients with colorectal cancer present metastases at the time of diagnosis and 50 % go on to develop metastases in the course of the disease. Surgical resection is the only curative treatment although only between 20 % and 30 % of patients present resectable lesions. Although liver transplantation is contraindicated in unresectable metastases of colorectal cancer, ever since the publication of the results of a pilot study there has been renewed interest in transplantation in these patients. In two consecutive trials overall and recurrence-free 5-year survival rates of 83 % and 35 % respectively, have been reported, Currently several trials are ongoing which are expected to allow the patient selection criteria for the indication of liver transplantation to be refined.
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Publication history

Received: 27/07/2023

Accepted: 31/07/2023

Online First: 04/08/2023

Published: 07/02/2024

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