DC beads loaded with Irinotecan : precilinical and early clinical ...

Colorectal cancer
•World wide incidence: 400,000 patients
•60% patients will develop liver metastases
•Surgery is feasible in only a minority of
patients and most patients are treated with
systemic chemotherapy.
•Patients have a poor prognosis with
reported 1- and 3-year survival rates of
31% and 2.6%, respectively .