A Model to Predict Treatment Failure in Patients Undergoing Upfront Surgery for Resectable Colorectal Liver Metastases

Rick Greene, MD, discusses with Giammauro Berardi, MD, PhD, FEBS, the outcomes of a large cohort of patients undergoing upfront surgery for resectable colorectal liver metastases (CRLM) to analyze the predictability and probability of early treatment failure using clinicopathological characteristics. Dr. Berardi is author of, “A Model to Predict Treatment Failure in Patients Undergoing Upfront Surgery for Resectable Colorectal Liver Metastases.” Dr. Berardi is attending at the Department of HPB Surgery and Liver Transplantation of the San Camillo Forlanini Hospital, Rome, Italy, and previous to that was a Surgical Oncology clinical fellow at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York NY.