Treatment of patients with metastatic colorectal cancer and poor performance status: current evidence and challenges

Patients with unresectable metastatic colorectal cancer live for a median of three years when treated with standard therapies. While the evidence guiding cancer-directed treatment of this disease comes from phase III trials that have mostly enrolled patients with good performance status, some patien...

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Main Authors: Lucila Soares da Silva Rocha, Rachel P. Riechelmann
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Faculdade de Medicina / USP 2018-09-01
Series:Clinics
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Online Access:http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1807-59322018000200324&lng=en&tlng=en