Rectal Adenocarcinoma

MRI can help identify which patients with rectal cancer could avoid surgery based on response to neoadjuvant therapy, according to study results.

A nonoperative watch-and-wait strategy appeared comparable to upfront surgery in survival outcomes and could confer a quality-of-life benefit and significant cost savings for certain patients with rectal cancer, according to results of a modeling study published in Journal of the National Cancer Institute.