Systematic Reviews of Treatments for Bowel Cancer

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Created September 2009

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Title:   Selective internal radiation therapy for liver metastases from colorectal cancer
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
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
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:   Fluoropyrimidine-HAI (hepatic arterial infusion) versus systemic chemotherapy (SCT) for unresectable liver metastases from colorectal cancer
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:   Apr 2009
Title:   Second-line chemotherapy in advanced and metastatic CRC
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:   Apr 2009
Title:   Open versus laparoscopic (assisted) ileo pouch anal anastomosis for ulcerative colitis and familial adenomatous polyposis
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.
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
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
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:   Resection versus no intervention or other surgical interventions for colorectal cancer liver metastases
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   About one in four of patients with metastatic colorectal cancer have metastases isolated to the liver, of which 10 to 25% are eligible for ablation of the liver metastases. Preliminary data indicate that tumour ablation therapy can lead to improved surv...
Date:   Feb 2008
Title:   Long-term results of laparoscopic colorectal cancer resection
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
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:   Stapled versus handsewn methods for ileocolic anastomoses
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   After surgery for right-sided bowel cancer or Crohn's disease, the bowel ends may be joined either by the use of a stapler or by manual suturing. This systematic review found 6 randomised controlled trials with a total of 955 participants (357 stapled, ...
Date:   Mar 2007
Title:   Quality of life after rectal resection for cancer, with or without permanent colostomy.
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   No apparent differences in quality of life are found in rectal cancer patients with a permanent stoma when compared to non-stoma patients.For patients diagnosed with rectal cancer, surgery is the definite treatment. The surgical outcome is either restor...
Date:   Feb 2007
Title:   Pre-operative radiotherapy and curative surgery for the management of localized rectal carcinoma
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
Title:   Follow-up strategies for patients treated for non-metastatic colorectal cancer
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   For patients with colorectal cancer treated with curative intent, intensive follow up is associated with improved all-cause survival. However, from the randomised trials completed and reported to date, it is not clear what constitutes the optimal follow...
Date:   Aug 2006
Title:   Hepatic artery adjuvant chemotherapy for patients having resection or ablation of colorectal cancer metastatic to the liver
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   Patients who die of colorectal cancer usually die from, or at least with, liver metastases. On the other hand, isolated liver metastases can, on occasion, be resected with a chance of cure, if metastatic disease is not present elsewhere. After liver res...
Date:   Jul 2006
Title:   Chinese medical herbs for chemotherapy side effects in colorectal cancer patients
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   Chinese herbal medicines are widely used to counteract the side-effects of chemotherapy in patients being treated for cancer. As yet, there is no clear evidence that herbal medicines are effective in this role. We have performed a systematic review of t...
Date:   Nov 2004
Title:   Curative surgery for obstruction from primary left colorectal carcinoma: primary or staged resection?
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   No strong evidence about whether removal of bowel obstruction and cancer should be done in one step or as a staged procedure, when people have cancer in the left colon. Colorectal (bowel) cancer is common. It can obstruct the bowel, causing severe dilat...
Date:   Feb 2004
Title:   Non steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAID) and Aspirin for preventing colorectal adenomas and carcinomas
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   Experimental animals studies and observational studies have suggested that nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs and aspirin may reduce the development of colorectal cancer and recurrence of adenomas in patients with familial adenomatous polyposis (FAP)....
Date:   Nov 2003
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