Patients with multiple synchronous colonic cancer hepatic metastases benefit from enrolment in a “liver first” approach protocol

Table 1 Patients’ first assessment demographic and clinical characteristics

Patients	Gender	Age (yr)	Primary colonic tumour location	Metastatic type (liver-limited)	Colonic obstruction > stent placement
1	Male	67	Sigmoid	II	-
2	Male	75	Sigmoid	II	-
3	Female	37	Sigmoid	III	-
4	Male	79	Sigmoid	III	√
5	Male	79	Descending	III	√
6	Male	40	Sigmoid	II	√
7	Female	75	Sigmoid	II	-
8	Male	59	Descending	III	-
9	Female	78	Descending	III	√
10	Male	59	Sigmoid	III	√
11	Male	75	Ascending	II	-

Table 2 Patients’ operative treatment and oncologic characteristics

Patients	Metastatic type (liver-limited)	Hepatectomy 1	Hepatectomy 2	Colectomy	Disease-free	Overall
					Survival period (mo)
1	II	RE and wedge and RFA-MWA	-	√	8.23	39.57
2	II	Right	Left lateral and RFA-MWA	√	2.20	14.17
3	III	-	-	-	-	13.97
4	III	-	-	-	-	7.33
5	III	-	-	-	-	13.37
6	II	Laparoscopic left lateral	Right	√	15.27	39.17
7	II	Left lateral	Right	√	5.27	15.57
8	III	-	-	-	-	9.43
9	III	Laparoscopic left lateral	-	-	-	7.80
10	III	-	-	-	-	11.5
11	II	-	-	-	-	10.1

RE: Right extended; RFA: Radiofrequency ablation; MWA: Microwave ablation.