Chemoprevention of gastrointestinal cancer. Screening for colorectal cancer. Screening for hepatocellular carcinoma. Reduced mortality from colorectal cancer may be achieved by screening with faecal occult blood testing. Screening for neoplasia in the rectum and sigmoid colon with flexible sigmoidoscopy is suggested to be more effective, particular among persons between 50 and 60 years of age.
Liver metastasis is one of the major causes of cancer death after resection of pancreatic cancer.
To deal with this problem, we developed a liver perfusion chemotherapy via the hepatic artery and portal vein. The present paper is designed to introduce the technique of this method and report on the promising results. All patients were followed-up to determine whether and where cancer recurrence developed. Excluding 4 patients who died of postoperative complications, our liver perfusion chemotherapy was performed on 27 patients. The other 67 patients did not receive this treatment.