Is "watch-and-wait" after chemoradiotherapy safe in patients with rectal cancer?

BMJ. 2018 Nov 13:363:k4472. doi: 10.1136/bmj.k4472.

Fraser M Smith^{1

2}, Katharine Cresswell³, Arthur Sun Myint^{4

2}, Andrew G Renehan^{5

6}

¹ Department of Surgery, Royal Liverpool and Broadgreen University Hospitals NHS Trust, Liverpool, UK [email protected].
² Institute of Translational Medicine, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, UK.
³ NIHR Biomedical Research Centre Patient and Public Cancer Research Advisory Group, Public Programmes Team, Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust; and Faculty of Biology, Medicine and Health, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK.
⁴ Clatterbridge Cancer Centre, Bebington, Wirral, UK.
⁵ Manchester Cancer Research Centre, NIHR Manchester Biomedical Research Centre, Division of Cancer Sciences, School of Medical Sciences, Faculty of Biology, Medicine and Health, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK.
⁶ Colorectal and Peritoneal Oncology Centre, Christie NHS Foundation Trust, Manchester, UK.

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