Clinical utility of pretreatment prediction of chemoradiotherapy response in rectal cancer: a review
- Authors
- Yoo, Byong Chul; Yeo, Seung-Gu
- Issue Date
- Mar-2017
- Publisher
- BioMed Central
- Keywords
- Rectal cancer; Chemoradiotherapy; Response; Prediction; Wait and see; Watch and wait; Non-operative
- Citation
- EPMA Journal, v.8, no.1, pp 61 - 67
- Pages
- 7
- Journal Title
- EPMA Journal
- Volume
- 8
- Number
- 1
- Start Page
- 61
- End Page
- 67
- URI
- https://scholarworks.bwise.kr/sch/handle/2021.sw.sch/7739
- DOI
- 10.1007/s13167-017-0082-x
- ISSN
- 1878-5077
1878-5085
- Abstract
- Approximately 20% of all patients with locally advanced rectal cancer experience pathologically complete responses following neoadjuvant chemoradiotherapy (CRT) and standard surgery. The utility of radical surgery for patients exhibiting good CRT responses has been challenged. Organsparing strategies for selected patients exhibiting complete clinical responses include local excision or no immediate surgery. The subjects of this tailored management are patients whose presenting disease corresponds to current indications of neoadjuvant CRT, and their post-CRT tumor response is assessed by clinical and radiological examinations. However, a model predictive of the CRT response, applied before any treatment commenced, would be valuable to facilitate such a personalized approach. This would increase organ preservation, particularly in patients for whom upfront CRT is not generally prescribed. Molecular biomarkers hold the greatest promise for development of a pretreatment predictive model of CRT response. A combination of clinicopathological, radiological, and molecular markers will be necessary to render the model robust. Molecular research will also contribute to the development of drugs that can overcome the radioresistance of rectal tumors. Current treatments for rectal cancer are based on the expected prognosis given the presenting disease extent. In the future, treatment schemes may be modified by including the predicted CRT response evaluated at presentation.
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