Living-donor liver transplantation may be a viable option for patients with unresectable, liver-confined colorectal cancer liver metastases, according to a study published in JAMA Surgery.
“This study proves for the first time in North America the feasibility and efficacy of living-donor liver transplant in patients with colorectal liver metastases,” senior study author Gonzalo Sapisochin, MD, PhD, MSc, a transplant surgeon at Ajmera Transplant Center and associate professor of surgery at the University of Toronto, told Healio. “To date, all the information that we had was on