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Background. The only method of treatment offering a favorable prognosis for colorectal carcinoma is radical resection of part of the colon or rectum including the pertaining lymph glands and eventual radical removal of metastases. But even such assumably curative surgery does not warrant full recovery of all operated patients as recurrences are frequent and according tomost analyses 5-year survival is under 50%. The most significant reason for this for this poor therapeutic success lies in residual micrometastases not detected in the course of surgery and which may also be located extraregionally i.e. in peripheral blood or bone marrow. Therefore additional treatment is attempted in some pat...
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