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Surgical downstaging and neo-adjuvant therapy in metastatic colorectal carcinoma with irinotecan drug-eluting beads: a multi-institutional study

Authors

BOWER M. METZGER T. ROBBINS K. TOMALTY D. VÁLEK Vlastimil BOUDNÝ Jaroslav ANDRAŠINA Tomáš TATUM C. MARTIN RC.

Year of publication 2010
Type Article in Periodical
Magazine / Source HPB (Oxford)
MU Faculty or unit

Faculty of Medicine

Citation
Doi http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1477-2574.2009.00117.x
Field Oncology and hematology
Keywords metastatic colon cancer; liver directed therapy; chemoembolization; irinotecan
Description Background: Neoadjuvant chemotherapy for potentially resectable metastatic colorectal cancer (MCC) is becoming a more common treatment algorithm. The aim of the present study was to evaluate the efficacy of precision hepatic arterial Irinotecan therapy in unresectable MCC. Methods: An open-label, multi-centre, multi-national single arm study of MCC patients, who received hepatic arterial irinotecan. Primary endpoints were safety, tolerance and metastatic tumour resection. Results: Fifty-five patients with metastatic colorectal to the liver underwent a total of 90 hepatic arterial irinotecan treatments. The extent of liver involvement was <25% in 75% of the patients (n = 41), between 26 and 50% in 15% of the patients (n = 11) and >50% in 10% of the patients (n = 24). The median number of hepatic lesions was four (range 1-20), with a median total size of all target lesions of 9 cm (range 5.5-28 cm) with 50% of patients having bilobar tumour distribution. The median number of irinotecan treatments was two (range 1-5). The median treatment dose was 100 mg (range 100-200) with a median total hepatic treatment of 200 mg (range 200-650). The majority of treatments (86%) were performed as lobar infusion treatments, and 30% of patients were treated with concurrent simultaneous chemotherapy. Eleven (20%) patients demonstrated significant response and downstage of their disease or demonstrated stable disease without extra-hepatic disease progression allowing resection, ablation or resection and ablation. There were no post-operative deaths. Post-operative complications morbidity occurred in 18% of patients, with none of them hepatic related. Non-tumorous liver resected demonstrated no evidence of steatohepatitis from the irinotecan arterial infusion. Conclusions: Hepatic arterial infusion irinotecan drug-eluting beads is safe and effective in pre-surgical therapy and helpful in evaluating the biology of metastatic colorectal cancer to the liver prior to planned hepatic resection.

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