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September 12, 2025Canadian Liver Journal

The emerging role of liver transplantation in metastatic colorectal cancer

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VRVerena RafaelEYEric M. YoshidaNCNatasha Chandok

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Review highlights liver transplantation outcomes for colorectal cancer metastases, indicating ethical concerns arise with donor limits.

Key Points

  • Promising survival outcomes have emerged from liver transplantation for patients with metastatic colorectal cancer.
  • Studies show that approximately one quarter of colorectal cancer patients develop liver metastases, often leading to a poor prognosis.
  • Liver transplantation raises ethical issues, particularly concerning donor availability in many healthcare settings.
  • Ongoing trials seek to establish the viability of liver transplantation as a standard treatment for liver-only metastases.

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Rafael et al. (2025) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/68d44a3731b076d99fa53647https://doi.org/10.3138/canlivj-2025-0014
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