Merkow and Connell Highlight Considerations for HAI Pump Use in CRC

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In today’s episode, sponsored by Intera Oncology, we passed the mic to Ryan Merkow, MD, MS, and Louise Catherine Connell, MB BCh BAO, BMedSc, who discussed the use of hepatic artery infusion (HAI) pumps in the management of unresectable colorectal cancer (CRC). Dr Merkow is an associate professor of surgery, the director for Surgical Cancer Quality, the associate director of Health Services Research in the Department of Surgery, and the director of the Hepatic Artery Infusion Pump Program at the University of Chicago Medicine Comprehensive Cancer Center and Cancer Service Line in Illinois. Dr Connell is an assistant attending physician at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York, New York.

In this exclusive conversation, Drs Merkow and Connell discussed reasons why they adopted HAI therapy as a treatment offering for patients with CRC, characteristics of patients who are good candidates for this treatment, and more.

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