Role of surgery in colorectal liver metastases: Too early or too late?

As colorectal cancer and colorectal liver metastases become a serious public health problem,new treatment modalities are needed in order to achieve better results. In the last decade there has been very important progress in oncology,with new and more effective chemotherapeutic agents administered alone or in combination improving the resectability rate in up to 40%of patients with colorectal liver metastases.Advances in interventional radiology,in particular,with the use of portal vein embolization and rad...