Elastography predicts treatment response in colorectal cancer patients

Elastography could help with treatment strategies for colorectal cancer patients, a study presented November 26 at the RSNA annual meeting found. In his presentation, Jae Seok Bae, MD, from Seoul National University Hospital in South Korea presented research that found that shear-wave velocity values measured after chemotherapy showed predictive performance in chemotherapy responsiveness in patients with colorectal cancer liver metastases.Jae Seok Bae, MD, from Seoul National University Hospital presented research at RSNA showing the efficacy of shear-wave elastography in predicting chemotherapy response in colorectal patients.Amerigo Allegretto “I hope that this [elastography] will be helpful in predicting the overall [treatment] response,” Bae said. Chemotherapy is the standard treatment for treating colorectal cancer with liver metastases. Assessing treatment response is important for determining the chemotherapy regimen, such as adjusting which chemotherapeutic agents are used. Early changes in the regiment often lead to prognosis. Shear-wave elastography measures changes in tumor stiffness between and after chemotherapy to predict pathological response in patients. Previous studies have shown its efficacy in this area for breast cancer. Bae and colleagues sought to study the prognostic role of shear-wave velocity value for predicting chemotherapeutic response and progression-free survival in colorectal cancer patients. In its prospective single-center study, the...
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