Metabolic vs pathological response for colorectal cancer liver metastases

What is it about?

This study shows metabolic response to chemotherapy is a better biomarker compared to pathological response and correlates to tumour proliferation and loss of tumour suppression

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Why is it important?

This study strongly suggests tumour metabolic response to be indicative of systematic disease control which allows for increased benefit of local treatment with surgical resection of colorectal liver metastases.