Table 2.

Responses to an item on treatment proposals for a 55-year-old patient with eight metastases in the right lobe and a 2.5-cm metastasis in segment III, 3 years after resection of a primary stage III colon cancer and adjuvant chemotherapy (n= 22 respondents)

Answer option	n (%)
Referral to medical oncology for neoadjuvant chemotherapy followed by restaging and possible surgery	9 (40.9%)
Upfront surgery
• Right portal vein embolization followed by right hepatic lobectomy and left lateral segmentectomy	3 (13.6%)
• Right hepatic lobectomy and radiofrequency ablation of left lateral segment metastasis	2 (9.1%)
• Staged resection:
• Left lateral wedge resection of segment III lesion and ligation of the right portal vein followed by right hepatic lobectomy if adequate regeneration	4 (18.2%)
• Right hepatic lobectomy followed by left lateral segmentectomy if adequate regeneration of left lobe	2 (9.1%)
Referral to medical oncology for palliative chemotherapy	2 (9.1%)