The results of liver cryosurgery for synchronized liver metastasis from colorectal cancer

We examined our results of liver cryosurgery for synchronized liver metastasis from colorectal cancer. Twelve patients whose prognosis after the cryosurgery was clear were eligible. All of the patients received not only a resection of the colorectal primary lesion, but they also received a cryosurgery for liver metastases under the same laparotomy. These patients had been treated in this manner from 1981 to 1987. Ten of the 12 patients died from recurrent cancer. The range in survival time of 12 cases was from 6 months to 117 months, and the average survival length was 25.4 months. The examination of the results suggested that there were no cryosurgery induced anti-immunological response observed among the patients. The survival lengths of the patients with untreated cancer were good.