scholarly journals How to Achieve a Higher Pathologic Complete Response in Patients With Locally Advanced Rectal Cancer Who Receive Preoperative Chemoradiation Therapy

2019 ◽  
Vol 35 (1) ◽  
pp. 3-8 ◽  
Author(s):  
Suk-Hwan Lee
Keyword(s):  
Rectal Cancer ◽  
Locally Advanced ◽  
Pathologic Complete Response ◽  
Complete Response ◽  
Advanced Rectal Cancer ◽  
Locally Advanced Rectal Cancer ◽  
Preoperative Chemoradiation ◽  
Chemoradiation Therapy ◽  
Preoperative Chemoradiation Therapy

Clinical significance of neutrophil-lymphocyte ratio to the patients with locally advanced rectal cancer who received preoperative chemoradiation therapy.

2020 ◽  
Vol 38 (4_suppl) ◽  
pp. 138-138
Author(s):  
Joo Hwan Lee ◽  
Jong Hoon Lee ◽  
Sung Hwan Kim ◽  
Hyo Chun Lee
Keyword(s):  
Rectal Cancer ◽  
Locally Advanced ◽  
Pathologic Complete Response ◽  
Complete Response ◽  
Advanced Rectal Cancer ◽  
Locally Advanced Rectal Cancer ◽  
Preoperative Chemoradiation ◽  
Chemoradiation Therapy ◽  
Preoperative Chemoradiation Therapy ◽  
National University

138 Background: Preoperative chemoradiation therapy (CRT) and total mesorectal excision have been the standard care of the patients with locally advanced rectal cancer. Response to the preop CRT varied from patient to patient, approximately 10-15% of the patients achieved complete response, on the contrary, nearly 40% of the patients still showed ypT4 disease. The aim of this study is to assess the prognostic value of NLR and suggest the optimal cut-off value to predict tumor response to the preoperative chemoradiation therapy in the patients with locally advanced rectal cancer. Methods: We analyzed the medical records of 1134 patients who diagnosed with locally advanced rectal cancer and treated with preop CRT followed by radical surgery at St. Vincent hospital, Seoul St. Mary’s hospital, Chonnam National University Hwasun Hospital, Gyeongsang National University Hospital and Dongsan Medical Center from 1998 to 2015. All patients had histologically confirmed rectal adenocarcinoma within 10 cm from anal verge. All patients received preoperative CRT to the pelvis followed by TME. Complete blood count was performed at initial workup before treatment and NLR was calculated with differential count. Results: An optimal cut-off value of the NLR was revealed as 1.98. The NLR showed average value for predicting death (AUC 0.516, p < 0.001). According to the cut-off value, patients were divided into two groups; high NLR (NLR≥2.0, n = 530) and low NLR (NLR < 2.0, n = 604). The patients with low NLR achieved pathologic complete response more frequently. 105 patients of total 604 patients (17.4%) with low NLR showed no remnant tumor cells, compared to 63 patients of the 530 patients (11.9%) with high NLR did (p = 0.012). The proportion of the patients who were downstaged to T1-2N0 was evaluated. In the low NLR group, 258 patients (42.7%) were downstaged, while 199 patients (37.5%) in the high NLR group were, which showed a tendency but did not reach statistical significance (p = 0.087). Conclusions: In this large-scale multi-center analysis, NLR was once again identified as a predictor of treatment response of preop CRT in patients with locally advanced rectal cancer.

Totally neoadjuvant chemoradiation therapy with mFOLFOX6 in locally advanced rectal cancer: A single arm phase II study (FOTAC).

2017 ◽  
Vol 35 (4_suppl) ◽  
pp. TPS816-TPS816
Author(s):  
Jianwei Zhang ◽  
Yue Cai ◽  
Huabin Hu ◽  
Jian Xiao ◽  
Dianke Chen ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Rectal Cancer ◽  
Phase Ii Study ◽  
Locally Advanced ◽  
Pathologic Complete Response ◽  
Complete Response ◽  
Advanced Rectal Cancer ◽  
Locally Advanced Rectal Cancer ◽  
Neoadjuvant Chemoradiation ◽  
Chemoradiation Therapy ◽  
Neoadjuvant Chemoradiation Therapy

TPS816 Background: Preoperative 5-Fluorouracil based chemoradiotherapy is the standard of treatment for locally advanced rectal cancer. About 15% to 18% of patients would achieve pathologic complete response (pCR) after 5-Fluorouracil based chemoradiation. And the survival outcome of patients with pCR was much better than that of non-pCR. In our previous FOWARC study, in the group of preoperative systemic chemotherapy with mFOLFOX6 combined with radiation, the pCR rate was up to 27.5%. In another study, adding mFOLFOX6 after neoadjuvant chemo radiation in locally advanced rectal cancer improve the pCR rate to 38%. This phase II study aimed to explore whether totally neoadjuvant chemoradiation therapy with mFOLFOX6 could further improve the pCR rate in locally advanced rectal cancer. Methods: The primary endpoint is the pathologic complete response rate (pCR).The secondary endpoint included 3-year disease free survival rate, 3-year local recurrence rate, and safety. We hypothesized that totally neoadjuvant chemoradiation therapy with mFOLFOX6 could improve the pCR rate from 18% to 45% with 5% type I error and 80% power. Fifty patients met inclusion criteria will be enrolled in the trial. All patients will receive long term radiation for 25 times and 50Gy before surgery. Four cycles of mFOLFOX6 would be performed every 2 weeks during radiotherapy, and another 4-6 cycles would be added after radiotherapy and before operation. Totally, the patients will receive 8-10 cycles of chemotherapy before surgery. MRI of the pelvic will be performed every 4 cycles of the therapy to assess clinical response. Then the patient will receive total mesorectal excision at least 8 weeks after radiotherapy. The post-operative chemotherapy will be omitted and all the patients go to surveillance. Clinical trial information: NCT02887313.

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