The Randomised Study of Preoperative Radiotherapy and Local Excision for Radiosensitive Rectal Cancer
Local excision must involve all tissue invaded on pretreatment examination. For this reason,
4-5 tatoos of mucosa at the tumour border should be performed before the onset of treatment.
Next, the long-course radiochemotherapy or short-course radiotherapy is randomly allocated.
After 6 weeks interval, the full thickness local excision should be carried out with 1 cm
margin. Patients with good pathological response (complete response or downstaging to ypT1
disease)are followed up. Conversion to open surgery is offered to patients with poor
pathological response (ypT2-3 or positive margin). Close follow-up is carried out in order
to detect an early local recurrence either in a bowel wall or in mesorectal lymph nodes.
Rescue surgery is offered in patients with local recurrence.
Interventional
Allocation: Randomized, Endpoint Classification: Safety/Efficacy Study, Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment, Masking: Open Label, Primary Purpose: Treatment
The rate of patients with downstaging after radiotherapy to pathological complete response or ypT1 disease with negative margins.
Surrogate endpoint available immediatly after surgery.
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Krzysztof Bujko, Prof.
Principal Investigator
Roentgena 5, 02-781 Warsaw, Poland
Poland: Ministry of Science and Higher Education
PGBRJG0108
NCT00738790
November 2003
November 2013
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