Organ preservation in rectal cancer patients following complete clinical response to neoadjuvant chemoradiotherapy: Long-term results in three patients
Gürel Neşşar
Clinic of Gastroenterology Surgery, Türkiye Yüksek İhtisas Hospital, Ankara, Turkey
Abstract
Rectal cancer patients following complete clinical response to neoadjuvant chemoradiotherapy (CRT) can be followed up without surgery. Those patients in particular who needed abdominoperineal resection before CRT choose the follow-up protocol, should they be given the necessary information. The purpose of this study was to demonstrate the long-term follow-up results of patients following neoadjuvant CRT without surgery.
Keywords: Rectal cancer, neoadjuvant chemoradiotherapy, clinical complete response, wait-and-see protocol
Written informed consent was obtained from patients who participated in this study.
Externally peer-reviewed.
No conflict of interest was declared by the author.
The author declared that this study has received no financial support.