Open AccessEndoscopic Feature and Response Reproducibility in Tumor Assessment after Neoadjuvant Therapy for Rectal Adenocarcinoma
Author(s) -
Seth Felder,
Sujata Patil,
Erin Kennedy,
Julio GarciaAguilar
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
annals of surgical oncology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.764
H-Index - 173
eISSN - 1534-4681
pISSN - 1068-9265
DOI - 10.1245/s10434-021-09827-w
Subject(s) - medicine , surgical oncology , neoadjuvant therapy , adenocarcinoma , reproducibility , complete response , colorectal adenocarcinoma , oncology , feature (linguistics) , radiology , chemotherapy , cancer , linguistics , statistics , philosophy , mathematics , breast cancer
The watch-and-wait approach may be safe for selected rectal cancer patients who achieve a complete clinical response after neoadjuvant treatment. Endoscopic examination is critical in determining completeness of tumor response but has not been systematically studied.