Emily Le Souder, Arash Azin, Trevor Wood, Dhruvin Hirpara, Ahmad Elnahas, Sean Cleary, Alice Wei, Richard Walker, Armen Parsyan, Sami Chadi, Fayez Quereshy
BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: Patients with colorectal cancer with synchronous liver metastases may undergo a staged or a simultaneous resection. This study aimed to determine whether the time to adjuvant chemotherapy was delayed in patients undergoing a simultaneous resection. METHODS: A retrospective cohort study was conducted between 2005 and 2016. The primary outcome was time to adjuvant chemotherapy. A multivariate linear regression was conducted to ascertain the adjusted effect of a simultaneous versus a staged approach on time to adjuvant chemotherapy...
July 2018: Journal of Surgical Oncology