Medical imaging can assess the tumor and its environment in their entirety, which makes it
suitable for monitoring the temporal and spatial characteristics of the tumor. Progress in …

Multimodal treatment strategies for patients with rectal cancer are increasingly including the
possibility of organ preservation, through nonoperative management or local excision …

This selection from the NCCN Guidelines for Rectal Cancer focuses on management of
malignant polyps and resectable nonmetastatic rectal cancer because important updates …

Background Accurate prediction of tumour response to neoadjuvant chemoradiotherapy
enables personalised perioperative therapy for locally advanced rectal cancer. We aimed to …

Background Preoperative assessment of pathologic complete response (pCR) in locally
advanced rectal cancer (LARC) after neoadjuvant chemoradiotherapy (nCRT) is …

Rectal cancer (RC) is a challenging disease to treat that requires chemotherapy, radiation
and surgery to optimize outcomes for individual patients. No accurate model of RC exists to …

Importance The watch-and-wait (WW) strategy aims to spare patients with rectal cancer
unnecessary resection. Objective To analyze the outcomes of WW among patients with …

Background The strategy of watch and wait (W&W) in patients with rectal cancer who
achieve a complete clinical response (cCR) after neoadjuvant therapy is new and offers an …

The NCCN Clinical Practice Guidelines in Oncology (NCCN Guidelines) for Rectal Cancer
address diagnosis, staging, surgical management, perioperative treatment, management of …

Importance Treatment of locally advanced rectal (LARC) cancer involves chemoradiation,
surgery, and chemotherapy. The concept of total neoadjuvant therapy (TNT), in which …