New chemotherapy approaches in colorectal cancer: a review

ABSTRACT

Colorectal Cancer is a common type of cancer encountered in medical oncology practice. Many patients are presenting in advance stage of disease and the rest are requiring adjuvant therapy after surgery. The results of the current standard therapy so far are not encouraging. This review is addressing the issue related to the new chemotherapy agents that have been recently introduced to clinical practice. Those recently published studies utilizing these chemotherapeutic agents are highlighted in this review