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?
Some patients have declined surgery knowing they achieved cCR. Would you observe or recommend chemoRT?
Answer from: Medical Oncologist at Community Practice
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...