Perioperative chemotherapy with FOLFOX4 and surgery versus surgery alone for resectable liver metastases from colorectal cancer (EORTC Intergroup trial 40983): a randomised controlled trial.

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Published in Lancet on March 22, 2008

Authors

Bernard Nordlinger1, Halfdan Sorbye, Bengt Glimelius, Graeme J Poston, Peter M Schlag, Philippe Rougier, Wolf O Bechstein, John N Primrose, Euan T Walpole, Meg Finch-Jones, Daniel Jaeck, Darius Mirza, Rowan W Parks, Laurence Collette, Michel Praet, Ullrich Bethe, Eric Van Cutsem, Werner Scheithauer, Thomas Gruenberger, EORTC Gastro-Intestinal Tract Cancer Group, Cancer Research UK, Arbeitsgruppe Lebermetastasen und-tumoren in der Chirurgischen Arbeitsgemeinschaft Onkologie (ALM-CAO), Australasian Gastro-Intestinal Trials Group (AGITG), Fédération Francophone de Cancérologie Digestive (FFCD)

Author Affiliations

1: Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Ambroise Paré, Assistance Publique Hôpitaux de Paris, Departments of Surgery and Oncology, Boulogne-Billancourt, France. bernard.nordlinger@apr.aphp.fr

Associated clinical trials:

Surgery With or Without Combination Chemotherapy in Treating Patients With Liver Metastases From Colorectal Cancer | NCT00006479

Simultaneous Resection of Colorectal Cancer With Synchronous Liver Metastases (RESECT) | NCT02954913

Study Comparing Pathological Responses Observed on Colorectal Cancer Metastases Resected After Preoperative Treatment Combining Cetuximab With FOLFOX or FOLFIRI in RAS and B-RAF WT Tumors | NCT01858662

Study Comparing Pathological Responses Observed on Colorectal Cancer Metastases Resected After Preoperative Bevacizumab With FOLFOX or FOLFIRI. (BEV-ONCO2012) | NCT01858649

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