Advances in Surgical Management of Colorectal Liver Metastases: Toward a Better Patient Selection, Lower Surgical Stress, and Multidisciplinary Approach
A special issue of Cancers (ISSN 2072-6694). This special issue belongs to the section "Cancer Therapy".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 December 2023) | Viewed by 349
Special Issue Editor
Interests: hepato-pancreatobiliary surgery; surgical onocology; minimally invasive surgery; liver resection; pancreatic resection; surgical resection of colorectal liver metastases; surgical resection of hepatocellular carcinoma; surgical resection of cholangiocarcinoma
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
During the last two decades, the surgical management of colorectal liver metastases (CLM) has evolved in many aspects, among which surgical patient selection and minimally invasive and multidisciplinary approaches play a central role.
- The understanding of CLM biology, including somatic gene mutational status, embryologic origin, as well as response to preoperative chemotherapy, have been shown to predict cancer-related survival, contributing to improve surgical patients’ health and procedure selection and preoperative patient information;
- The use of minimally invasive approaches (laparoscopic or robotic) for CLM resection, compared to the classic open approach, has been shown to be safe and non-inferior from an oncologic standpoint, while associated with a shorter postoperative recovery;
- The progress in techniques of future liver remnant remodeling, preoperative modern chemotherapy, and local ablation techniques has allowed an increasing number of upfront unresectable patients to undergo curative CLM resection.
This Special Issue will welcome research in which results of surgical resection for CLM will be reported, investigated, and analyzed in light of one or more of the overmentioned topics.
Prof. Dr. Giuseppe Zimmitti
Guest Editor
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