Chemotherapy for Colorectal Cancer

摘要: Carcinoma of the large bowel, which will afflict over 150,000 Americans this year, is second only to lung cancer as a cause death from cancer1. Although most patients present with surgically resectable disease, almost half die cancer. Radiation therapy has largely palliative role. In past, chemotherapy resulted in infrequent and usually transient shrinkage tumor, scarcely justifying discomforts costs treatment. recent years, however, there have been some advances. discussion that follows, credence given therapeutic claims validated by controlled trials sufficiently long . . .