Table 3.

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

Answer option	n (%)
Referral to medical oncology for neoadjuvant chemotherapy followed by restaging and possible surgery	18 (81.8%)
Upfront surgery
• Right portal vein embolization followed by right hepatic lobectomy and left lateral segmentectomy	1 (4.5%)
• Right hepatic lobectomy and radiofrequency ablation of left lateral segment metastasis	1 (4.5%)
• Left lateral wedge resection of segment III lesion, ligation of the right portal vein followed by right hepatic lobectomy if adequate regeneration	0
• Staged resection	0
Referral to medical oncology for palliative chemotherapy	2 (9.1%)