Researchers find capsules surrounding liver metastases of colorectal cancer are a healing response by the liver

A study by researchers from Karolinska Institutet and physicians from Karolinska Hospital shows that a capsule of connective tissue around liver metastases from colorectal cancer improves patient survival and represents a healing response by the liver, not a phenomenon caused by the tumor itself.

. Patients whose metastases are surrounded by connective tissue have significantly superior survival.

"The collaborations between our basic research lab and the surgeons and pathologists at Karolinska University Hospital were instrumental for this study," says Marco Gerling, the lead author.

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