Chemotherapy for colorectal cancer

Recent advances in chemotherapy lead to improved survival outcomes in patients with colorectal cancer. The 5-fluorouracil (5-FU) is still one of the important chemotherapeutic agents since 1950s, but the introduction of newer cytotoxic agents, irinotecan and oxaliplatin, or targeted agents, bevacizumab and cetuximab, have changed treatment strategies for these patients. A deliberate choice should be made for adjuvant chemotherapy, because it has became complicated more than ever before. Oxaliplatin plus 5-FU seemed to be superior in terms of disease-free and overall survival than 5-FU alone after curative surgery for colon cancers. However not all of these patients seemed to receive benefit from this intensive adjuvant treatment, and some limitations are present according to the postoperative stage, tumor biology and clinical characteristics. For metastatic disease, there is no doubt that more complicated strategies are present because we have more abundant chemotherapeutic agents available for metastatic setting compared to adjuvant setting. Recently, targeted agents, such as bevacizumab or cetuximab, also took an important place in the treatment of metastatic colorectal cancer, and many efforts are also made to find the biomarkers for predicting treatment responses to these targeted agents. In this review, we intended to sort up the standard strategies of chemotherapy for patients with colorectal cancer according to the latest pivotal publications.

Medienart:

Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2009

Erschienen:

2009

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:54

Enthalten in:

The Korean journal of gastroenterology = Taehan Sohwagi Hakhoe chi - 54(2009), 6 vom: 21. Dez., Seite 355-63

Sprache:

Koreanisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Hong, Yong Sang [VerfasserIn]
Kim, Tae Won [VerfasserIn]

Themen:

04ZR38536J
2S9ZZM9Q9V
Antibodies, Monoclonal
Antibodies, Monoclonal, Humanized
Antineoplastic Agents
Bevacizumab
Cetuximab
EC 3.6.5.2
Fluorouracil
Journal Article
Organoplatinum Compounds
Oxaliplatin
PQX0D8J21J
Ras Proteins
Review
U3P01618RT

Anmerkungen:

Date Completed 28.01.2010

Date Revised 11.11.2019

published: Print

Citation Status MEDLINE

Förderinstitution / Projekttitel:

PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM193911434