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Which patients, if any, treated according to PROSPECT for an early stage rectal cancer, would you offer surveillance if they achieved cCR after neoadjuvant chemotherapy?

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Medical Oncology · University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine

Thanks for the important question. This is a nice but also challenging situation given, at this time, we do not have evidence for organ preservation with chemotherapy alone. Nonetheless, the PROSPECT trial did show approximately 20% of patients indeed achieved pathological compete response (was quit...

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