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Organ Preservation in Rectal Adenocarcinoma: a phase II randomized controlled trial evaluating 3-year disease-free survival in patients with locally advanced rectal cancer treated with chemoradiation…

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Title
Organ Preservation in Rectal Adenocarcinoma: a phase II randomized controlled trial evaluating 3-year disease-free survival in patients with locally advanced rectal cancer treated with chemoradiation plus induction or consolidation chemotherapy, and total mesorectal excision or nonoperative management
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BMC Cancer, October 2015
DOI 10.1186/s12885-015-1632-z
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Authors

J. Joshua Smith, Oliver S. Chow, Marc J. Gollub, Garrett M. Nash, Larissa K. Temple, Martin R. Weiser, José G. Guillem, Philip B. Paty, Karin Avila, Julio Garcia-Aguilar, on behalf of the Rectal Cancer Consortium

Abstract

Treatment of patients with non-metastatic, locally advanced rectal cancer (LARC) includes pre-operative chemoradiation, total mesorectal excision (TME) and post-operative adjuvant chemotherapy. This trimodality treatment provides local tumor control in most patients; but almost one-third ultimately die from distant metastasis. Most survivors experience significant impairment in quality of life (QoL), due primarily to removal of the rectum. A current challenge lies in identifying patients who could safely undergo rectal preservation without sacrificing survival benefit and QoL. This multi-institutional, phase II study investigates the efficacy of total neoadjuvant therapy (TNT) and selective non-operative management (NOM) in LARC. Patients with MRI-staged Stage II or III rectal cancer amenable to TME will be randomized to receive FOLFOX/CAPEOX: a) before induction neoadjuvant chemotherapy (INCT); or b) after consolidation neoadjuvant chemotherapy (CNCT), with 5-FU or capecitabine-based chemoradiation. Patients in both arms will be re-staged after completing all neoadjuvant therapy. Those with residual tumor at the primary site will undergo TME. Patients with clinical complete response (cCR) will receive non-operative management (NOM). NOM patients will be followed every 3 months for 2 years, and every 6 months thereafter. TME patients will be followed according to NCCN guidelines. All will be followed for at least 5 years from the date of surgery or-in patients treated with NOM-the last day of treatment. The studies published thus far on the safety of NOM in LARC have compared survival between select groups of patients with a cCR after NOM, to patients with a pathologic complete response (pCR) after TME. The current study compares 3-year disease-free survival (DFS) in an entire population of patients with LARC, including those with cCR and those with pCR. We will compare the two arms of the study with respect to organ preservation at 3 years, treatment compliance, adverse events and surgical complications. We will measure QoL in both groups. We will analyze molecular indications that may lead to more individually tailored treatments in the future. This will be the first NOM trial utilizing a regression schema for response assessment in a prospective fashion. NCT02008656.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
United States 1 <1%
Sweden 1 <1%
Unknown 258 99%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Researcher 35 13%
Other 27 10%
Student > Master 24 9%
Student > Ph. D. Student 22 8%
Student > Doctoral Student 20 8%
Other 61 23%
Unknown 71 27%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 133 51%
Nursing and Health Professions 16 6%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 10 4%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 3 1%
Computer Science 3 1%
Other 13 5%
Unknown 82 32%
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