Low rectal cancer treatment strategies: a cohort study assessing watch and wait.
2020
PURPOSE: Treatment strategies for low rectal cancer have been evolving toward achieving less treatment morbidity with the same oncological success-we aimed to assess the results of the new watch and wait (WW there were no deaths or local recurrences; one patient with regrowth had distant recurrence. Sixty patients underwent direct surgery after a mean follow-up of 16.23 months; 3 patients had local and distant recurrences; 7 others had only distant recurrences; there were 8 deaths. There were no statistically significant differences between patients under WW p = 0.44; p = 0.19, respectively). CONCLUSION: The W&W strategy for low rectal cancer achieved the same oncological outcomes as the traditional strategy while sparing some patients from surgery.
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