African Journal of Internal Medicine

ISSN 2326-7283

African Journal of Internal Medicine ISSN 2326-7283 Vol. 7 (11), pp. 001-003, November, 2019. © International Scholars Journals

Review

Colorectal cancer: What news after the 2014 ESMO GI congress?

Rajae Najib, Fatima Zahra Hijri, Yousra Akesbi, Samia Arifi and Nawfal Mellas

Department of Medical Oncology, Hassan II University Hospital, Route Sidi Hrazem, Fez, 30000, Morocco.

Accepted 05 December 2019

Abstract

In the European Society for Medical Oncology (ESMO) 16th World Congress on Gastrointestinal cancer which took place in Barcelona between 25 and 28 June 2014, colorectal cancer was the subject of various oral presentations and posters. A selection of the more innovative researches, likely to change the patients' management was performed.

Key words: ESMO GI congress, colon cancer, rectum.