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Systematic Reviews of Treatments for Bowel Cancer
Follow the links below to find summaries of systematic reviews of the evidence for the effectiveness of treatments for bowel cancer.
Reviewed November 2011
27 Resources Found
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| Title: | Resection versus no intervention or other surgical interventions for colorectal cancer liver metastases |
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| Publisher: | John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration |
| Description: | Almost half of patients with colorectal cancer develop metastases many of which are located in the liver, and a quarter of which may be amendable to surgery. If all disease is removed these patients have a 30% to 50% chance of survival at five years.Tre... |
| Date: | Jul 2011 |
| Title: | Colorectal stents for the management of malignant colonic obstructions |
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| Publisher: | John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration |
| Description: | Emergency surgical decompression has been the traditional treatment of choice for the malignant colorectal tumours presenting as an acute obstruction. This is associated with higher morbidity and mortality due to the emergency nature of the procedure a... |
| Date: | Jun 2011 |
| Title: | Stapled versus handsewn methods for ileocolic anastomoses |
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| Publisher: | John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration |
| Description: | Surgery for right-sided bowel cancer or Crohn's disease commonly involve removing a segment of bowel and re-joining the small and large bowel together. The join, or anastomosis, can be made by stapling or sewing. This systematic review found seven rando... |
| Date: | Apr 2011 |
| Title: | Fluoropyrimidine-HAI (hepatic arterial infusion) versus systemic chemotherapy (SCT) for unresectable liver metastases from colorectal cancer |
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| Publisher: | John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration |
| Description: | The standard treatment for unresectable liver-confined metastatic disease from colorectal cancer (CRC) is systemic chemotherapy (SCT). Unfortunately, the prognosis of these patients is dismal and SCT is virtually never curative. Although locoregional tr... |
| Date: | Jan 2011 |
| Title: | Energy source instruments for laparoscopic colectomy |
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| Publisher: | John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration |
| Description: | Having a laparoscopic (key-hole) approach in surgery to remove a section of a diseased bowel, either caused from a benign or cancerous lesion is becoming increasingly common. There are three kinds of surgical instruments available for this procedure; th... |
| Date: | Oct 2010 |
| Title: | Quality of life after rectal resection for cancer, with or without permanent colostomy. |
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| Publisher: | John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration |
| Description: | For patients diagnosed with rectal cancer, surgery is the definite treatment. The surgical outcome is either restored bowel continuity, or the formation of a stoma. Traditionally the formation of a colostomy has been regarded as an unfavourable outcome,... |
| Date: | Feb 2010 |
| Title: | Covering ileo- or colostomy in anterior resection for rectal carcinoma |
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| Publisher: | John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration |
| Description: | Anastomotic leak is a breakdown of a suture line in a surgical anastomosis with a consequent leakage of intestinal fluid, following surgical intervention. Anastomotic leak is one the most significant complications that occur after performing a surgical ... |
| Date: | Jan 2010 |
| Title: | Duration of adjuvant chemotherapy for patients with non-metastatic colorectal cancer |
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| Publisher: | John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration |
| Description: | The aim of this systematic review was to determine the optimal duration of chemotherapy. Currently, the standard of duration is based upon studies performed in the 90's, and focus on the determination of the best schedule of 5FU treatment alone or in co... |
| Date: | Oct 2009 |
| Title: | Surgical resection versus non-surgical treatment for hepatic node positive patients with colorectal liver metastases |
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| Publisher: | John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration |
| Description: | Nearly a third of patients with large bowel cancers (colorectal cancer) spread to the liver (liver metastases) within five years of diagnosis of bowel cancer. The affected part of the liver can be removed surgically in a quarter of such patients who dev... |
| Date: | Sep 2009 |
| Title: | Selective internal radiation therapy for liver metastases from colorectal cancer |
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| Publisher: | John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration |
| Description: | Bowel cancer commonly spreads to the liver. In most patients this cannot be removed by an operation and cure is not possible. Chemotherapy treatment can help control the growth of the cancer and improve survival. Radioactive beads can be injected into t... |
| Date: | Jul 2009 |
| Title: | Anti-angiogenic therapies for metastatic colorectal cancer |
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| Publisher: | John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration |
| Description: | Angiogenesis refers to the development of new blood vessels from the pre-existing vascular bed. Tumours are dependent on the formation of new blood vessels for their growth. Agents which inhibit the formation of new blood vessels are commonly referred t... |
| Date: | May 2009 |
| Title: | Concomitant hyperthermia and radiation therapy for treating locally advanced rectal cancer |
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| Publisher: | John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration |
| Description: | In the past decades, radiotherapy with or without chemotherapy followed by surgery has become standard treatment for advanced rectal cancer. Chemotherapy is often added, because it enhances the effect of radiotherapy. Another method to amplify radiother... |
| Date: | Apr 2009 |
| Title: | Second-line chemotherapy in advanced and metastatic CRC |
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| Publisher: | John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration |
| Description: | Patients with metastatic or advanced colorectal cancer are often treated with chemotherapy. If the disease doesn't improve with a specific chemotherapy regimen, a different chemotherapy regimen may be tried, called second-line treatment, with the aim to... |
| Date: | Jan 2009 |
| Title: | Open versus laparoscopic (assisted) ileo pouch anal anastomosis for ulcerative colitis and familial adenomatous polyposis |
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| Publisher: | John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration |
| Description: | Resection of the entire colon and creation of an ileal pouch by means of an ileo pouch anal anastomosis (IPAA) is a last resort for many patients with ulcerative colitis and familial adenomatous polyposis. In recent years this operation has increasingly... |
| Date: | Nov 2008 |
| Title: | Pre and peri-operative erythropoeitin for reducing allogeneic blood transfusions in colorectal cancer surgery. |
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| Publisher: | John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration |
| Description: | Patients with cancer of the large bowel are often anaemic and sometimes receive transfusions which may be harmful. The medication erythropoietin can be used to increase hemoglobin levels in a variety of situations and several studies have looked at this... |
| Date: | Oct 2008 |
| Title: | Preoperative chemoradiation versus radiation alone for stage II and III resectable rectal cancer |
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| Publisher: | John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration |
| Description: | In rectal cancer patients, local control is improved by administering radiotherapy (RT) before surgery. Recently, studies have combined preoperative RT with chemotherapy aiming to further improve local control. This review compared preoperative RT with ... |
| Date: | Sep 2008 |
| Title: | Adjuvant therapy for completely resected stage II colon cancer |
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| Publisher: | John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration |
| Description: | Colon cancer is the second most common cause of cancer deaths in the Western world. A large proportion of colon cancer patients can be cured by surgical resection alone. For those patients with lymph node positive (stage III) disease, the recurrence rat... |
| Date: | May 2008 |
| Title: | Long-term results of laparoscopic colorectal cancer resection |
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| Publisher: | John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration |
| Description: | Laparoscopic resection of carcinoma of the colon is associated with a long term outcome no different from that of open colectomy. In the case of rectal cancer, data on long term outcome are scarce and the results of large randomised trails have to be aw... |
| Date: | Jan 2008 |
| Title: | Reconstructive techniques after rectal resection for rectal cancer |
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| Publisher: | John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration |
| Description: | Rectal cancer is a common cancer that requires surgical removal of the rectum and mesorectum for the best chance of cure. Advances in rectal cancer surgery have facilitated sphincter-preserving surgery in the majority of these patients. However, many of... |
| Date: | Nov 2007 |
| Title: | Pre-operative radiotherapy and curative surgery for the management of localized rectal carcinoma |
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| Publisher: | John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration |
| Description: | Optimal preoperative radiotherapi for localized rectal cancer provide a modest improvement in overall survival, definite improvement in local recurrences, modest increase in the proportion of patients undergoing curative surgery, but is also accompanied... |
| Date: | Dec 2006 |
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