Treatment of colorectal cancer. Current guidelines and future prospects for drug therapy.

摘要: Colorectal carcinoma is one of the most common cancers in Western countries (yearly incidence rate 1: 3000), and represents, after lung cancer, second leading cause deaths due to cancer. During past decades, knowledge about this has considerably increased, but little progress been made improvement patient survival. At least 40% patients with colorectal cancer will have metastases sometime during course their illness.