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“The OPRA trial results and National Comprehensive Cancer Network (NCCN) guidelines for locally advanced rectal cancer treatment endorse watch-and-wait for patients with clinical complete response ...

Patients with rectal cancer and at least one enlarged LLN (short-axis ≥7.0 mm), or intermediate LLN (short-axis 5.0–6.9 mm) with at least one malignant feature on primary MRI, evaluated ... of a ...

Yet, its predictive role has not been studied in Egyptian rectal cancer patients ... scan was repeated and compared with the pretreatment pelvic MRI to assess the patient's radiological response to ...

Rectal cancer recurrence occurs predominantly in distant organs ... exam also reviewed the restaging exam not blinded to the pretreatment stage. The MRI Tumor Response Grade (TRG) was adopted as ...

Patients were staged using magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and computed ... risks correlated with response to treatment, NAR (short for neoadjuvant rectal cancer) scores, and pathological staging.

it recommended watch-and-wait as an option for near-complete response in its 2023 rectal cancer guidelines. The group also added a few MRI requirements. UCSF offers the watch-and-wait option to ...