this sounds soooooo good.,,.

For those who like readings stats..there
s finally good news...
This info came from MD
if you want to read the whole story go to :
http://www2.mdanderson.org/depts/oncolog/articles/06/4-apr/4-06-1.html
Again, what Dr. Abdalla and his colleagues found was noteworthy: patients who underwent surgical resection as a primary treatment fared significantly better—in terms of both survival and recurrence—than those who received other primary treatments. Despite advances in chemotherapy, it alone was insufficient: few patients who received chemotherapy as their sole treatment reached the 5-year survival mark, even when metastatic disease was limited to the liver. Survival rates (less than 20% at 5 years) for patients who underwent radiofrequency ablation alone or a combination of radiofrequency ablation and resection paled in comparison with the 5-year survival rate of 58% for patients whose lesions were surgically resected.

Intrigued by the benefit of aggressive approaches to hepatic resection for colorectal metastases, Dr. Abdalla and his colleagues delved further, this time looking only at patients who had solitary liver tumors and who had been treated and undergone thorough radiologic follow-up at M. D. Anderson. Focusing the study on this population ensured the highest standard of documentation for procedures and recurrences. What the researchers found was astonishing: resection of solitary colorectal metastasis was associated with a 5-year survival rate of 71.5%.