African Journal of Internal Medicine

ISSN 2326-7283

African Journal of Internal Medicine ISSN 2326-7283 Vol. 3 (10), pp. 313-314 November, 2015. © International Scholars Journals

Review

Colorectal cancer: What did we learn from the 2014 ESMO GI congress?

*Najib Mimoun Assaidi, Mustapha Saad Hassan and Amhali Lamjarred

Department of Medical Oncology, Faculty of Medicine, Cadi Ayyad University, Marrakesh, Morocco.

*Corresponding  author.  E-mail: [email protected]

Accepted 17 October 2015

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.