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Oct 2026
A Word of Caution: Watch and Wait in the Total Mesorectal Excision Era.
BACKGROUND Watch and wait strategies offer organ preservation for selected patients with rectal cancer following neoadjuvant chemoradiotherapy (nCRT). Long-term outcomes following nCRT and total mesorectal excision (TME) provide important context for evaluating these approaches. We report regional surgical, pathologica...
K. Broughton, R. Cohen, A. Armanios et al.
· ANZ journal of surgery · 0 citations