Abstract
Development of a totally implantable infusion pump produced a renewed interest in hepatic infusional therapy. An initial study employing this pump by Ensminger and associates and the continuous hepatic infusion of 5-fluoro-2′-deoxyuridine (FUdR) observed an 83% response rate [1]. However, further work with this method brought the mean response rate down to 59% (Table 1) [2], which, however, is still higher than the mean response rate obtained with systemic chemotherapy.
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Kemeny, N., Daly, J. (1986). Preliminary Results of a Randomized Study of Intrahepatic Infusion Versus Systemic Infusion of 5-Fluoro-2′ -deoxyuridine for Metastatic Colorectal Carcinoma. In: Herfarth, C., Schlag, P., Hohenberger, P. (eds) Therapeutic Strategies in Primary and Metastatic Liver Cancer. Recent Results in Cancer Research, vol 100. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-82635-1_22
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