Clinical Study
Six-Year Experience of a Nurse-Led Colorectal Cancer Follow-Up Clinic
Table 1
Breakdown of the management of 54 patients who were diagnosed with recurrent disease in the nurse led follow-up clinic.
| Site of recurrence | Treatment received | No of patients |
| Colon | Right Colon resection | 3 | Left Colon resection | 10 | Colon resection + Chemotherapy | 3 | Total | | 16 | Lung | Lung resection | 3 | Lung resection + Chemotherapy | 5 | Total | | 8 | Liver | Right segmental liver resection | 2 | Left segmental liver resection | 2 | Liver resection + chemotherapy | 8 | Total | | 12 | Distant metastasis | Chemotherapy + radiotherapy | 5 | Curative intent radiotherapy alone | 4 | Palliative treatment | 8 | Total | | 17 | Pending decision | | 1 |
| Total no of patients received treatment | | 54 |
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