New opportunities for metastatic bowel cancer! Radioembolization+chemotherapy

103, colon cancer and rectal cancer ranked the third among the top ten causes of cancer death; What is worrying is that the cells of colorectal cancer may be the first to transfer to the liver, causing liver metastasis of colorectal cancer, which is quite difficult to treat! It is difficult to eliminate tumors without damaging liver function. There are new treatment opportunities. For patients with unresectable colorectal cancer, if Yttrium 90 resin microspheres (also known as "radioembolization") are combined with chemotherapy, the life without deterioration of the liver can be improved.

The liver is almost the first metastatic organ of colorectal cancer. Cells of colorectal cancer may spread to other parts of the body through the blood. It is particularly important to note that venous blood flow is from colorectal cancer to the liver and then to the heart, which means that cancer cells may first transfer to the liver, causing liver metastasis of colorectal cancer. Therefore, the liver is almost the first metastatic organ of colorectal cancer.

Most cancers metastasize to the liver and die.

According to Associate Professor Peter Gibbs, consultant of oncology medicine at Royal Melbourne Hospital, Australia, "Although half of the patients who were initially diagnosed with colorectal cancer survived by in-situ surgery before the cancer metastasized to other parts of the body, most of the patients who died of cancer metastasis and could not be resected every year died of cancer metastasis to the liver. 」

Li Runchuan, an attending physician in the Radiology Department of Taipei Veterans General Hospital, said that patients with liver cancer can consider using Yttrium 90 resin microspheres after trying other chemotherapy or surgery, and the survival time can be extended to 8 to 13 months. 1 40-year-old middle-aged women, the tumor of liver cancer is as long as 10 cm, and it is located in the middle of the liver, which compresses the blood vessels of the liver and cannot be surgically removed. After treatment with Yttrium 90 resin microspheres, the tumor shrank to 5 cm within half a year, and the blood vessels were not compressed. Subsequently, a tumor resection was performed. At present, it has been followed up for almost 3 years and the situation is good.