Chemotherapy: Metastatic Disease

摘要: Metastatic colorectal cancer is one of the most common malignancies in Western world. Moreover, as this text so ably demonstrates, optimal management patients with rectal at any stage disease truly requires a multidisciplinary effort that, depending on illness, can involve colorectal, hepatobiliary, and thoracic surgeons, pathologists, radiologists, radiation oncologists, medical palliative care physicians, all playing important roles. The metastatic has become more challenging over past decade, treatment strategies locally advanced sometimes aimed cure rather than palliation. Additionally, number active anticancer agents including both chemotherapeutics targeted therapies which have demonstrated efficacy managing expanded considerably. Increasingly, are now able to be tailored toward an individual itself. In chapter, we will briefly provide overview epidemiology cancer, discuss past, present future used treat disease, some perspectives into future.