Avoiding Unnecessary Major Rectal Cancer Surgery by Implementing Structural Restaging and a Watch-and-Wait Strategy After Neoadjuvant Radiochemotherapy

BACKGROUND: Pathologic complete response (pCR) after neoadjuvant chemoradiotherapy (nCRT) is found in 15–20% of patients with locally advanced rectal cancer. A watch-and-wait (W&W) strategy has been introduced as an alternative strategy to avoid surgery for selected patients with a clinical comp...

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Autores principales: Huisman, J. F., Schoenaker, I. J. H., Brohet, R. M., Reerink, O., van der Sluis, H., Moll, F. C. P., de Boer, E., de Graaf, J. C., de Vos tot Nederveen Cappel, W. H., Beets, G. L., van Westreenen, H. L.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Springer International Publishing 2020
Materias:
Colorectal Cancer
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8043907/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33170456
http://dx.doi.org/10.1245/s10434-020-09192-0

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