May-19 -

Gastro-Intestinal Group

EORTC 1409 – A prospective Colorectal Liver Metastasis Database with an Integrated Quality Assurance program

Surgery has a definite role in offering cure to cancer patients, nonetheless there is a also a need to improve surgical research. Responding to this need, EORTC embarked on a collaborative project with ESSO to achieve excellent surgical research and care for cancer patients. It aims to map out challenges and initiate a sustainable collaboration to advance cancer surgery research in Europe. The pilot project under this collaboration looks at patients with colorectal liver metastasis.