J Alvarez, Q Shi, A Dasari, J Garcia-Aguilar, H Sanoff, T J George, T S Hong, G Yothers, P A Philip, G D Nelson, T Al Baghdadi, O Alese, W Zambare, D M Omer, F S Verheij, J Buckley, H Williams, M George, R Garcia, E M O'Reilly, J A Meyerhardt, A Shergill, N Horvat, P B Romesser, W A Hall, J J Smith
BACKGROUND: Recent data have demonstrated that in locally advanced rectal cancer (LARC), a total neoadjuvant therapy (TNT) approach improves compliance with chemotherapy and increases rates of tumor response compared to neoadjuvant chemoradiation (CRT) alone. They further indicate that the optimal sequencing of TNT involves consolidation (rather than induction) chemotherapy to optimize complete response rates. Data, largely from retrospective studies, have also shown that patients with clinical complete response (cCR) after neoadjuvant therapy may be managed safely with the watch and wait approach (WW) instead of preemptive total mesorectal resection (TME)...
April 27, 2024: medRxiv