Can liver metastasis of colon cancer be cured?

The liver is the main metastatic site of colorectal cancer, with a 50% incidence of liver metastasis. Colorectal cancer liver metastasis is a very complex biological process, and the mechanism is not yet fully understood. Micrometastasis is one of the possible causes. So can colorectal cancer liver metastasis be cured? Regarding this issue, let's take a closer look.

Traditionally, colorectal cancer liver metastasis is considered to be clinical stage IV, which is meaningless to treat, thus depriving patients of the opportunity for treatment. With the advancement of imaging technology, early, isolated, and smaller metastatic lesions can be discovered; the improvement of surgery, anesthesia, and perioperative management has greatly reduced surgical complications and mortality; adjuvant treatment methods, mainly neoadjuvant chemotherapy, can reduce the clinical stage of patients and transform unresectable tumors into resectable tumors.

The treatment of colon cancer is a comprehensive program that mainly focuses on surgery, supplemented by chemotherapy, immunotherapy, Chinese medicine and other supportive treatments to increase the surgical resection rate, reduce the recurrence rate and improve the survival rate. The principles of surgical treatment: Try to cure the disease radically, protect the pelvic autonomic nerves, preserve sexual function, urination function and defecation function, and improve the quality of life. To relieve symptoms such as obstruction, chronic blood loss, infection and poisoning.