Prognosis comparison between wait and watch and surgical strategy on rectal cancer patients after treatment with neoadjuvant chemoradiotherapy: a meta-analysis

Background: After achieving a clinical complete response through neoadjuvant chemoradiotherapy, a nonoperative management approach for rectal cancer patients known as Wait and Watch (W&W) has gained increasing attention. However, the W&W strategy has been related to higher local recurrence a...

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Main Authors: Kai Pang, Quan Rao, Shengqi Qin, Lan Jin, Hongwei Yao, Zhongtao Zhang
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SAGE Publishing 2019-12-01
Series:Therapeutic Advances in Gastroenterology
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1177/1756284819892477