Total neoadjuvant therapy in patients with locally advanced rectal cancer: A tertiary medical center experience

  • Authors:
    • Ziad El Husseini
    • Yolla Haibe
    • Youssef Bouferraa
    • Malek Kreidieh
    • Monita Al Darazi
    • Deborah Mukherji
    • Sally Temraz
    • Maya Charafeddine
    • Ali Shamseddine
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  • Published online on: August 25, 2021     https://doi.org/10.3892/mco.2021.2382
  • Article Number: 220
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Abstract

The current standard of care for locally advanced rectal cancer (LARC) includes preoperative chemoradiation, followed by total mesorectal excision and adjuvant chemotherapy. This multimodality treatment improves local control but is associated with low compliance rates without clear beneficial effects on overall survival (OS) and distant metastasis. In this retrospective study, the charts of patients diagnosed with cT3/4 or cT2‑node‑positive rectal cancer between January 2011 and June 2019 were reviewed. The chemoradiation therapy (CRT) group received a long course of CRT with capecitabine followed by surgery and adjuvant chemotherapy. The total neoadjuvant therapy (TNT) group received 6 cycles mFOLFOX and a short course of radiation therapy followed by surgery. A total of 81 patients were included, among which 55 (67.9%) received CRT and 26 (32.1%) received TNT. In the CRT group, 15 (27.3%) patients achieved pathologic complete response (pCR) compared with 10 (38.5%) in the TNT group (P=0.22). A total of 19 (35.8%) cases in the CRT group downstaged to pT0N0 or pT1N0 compared with 11 (42.3%) in the TNT group (P=0.33). The 2‑year disease‑free survival (DFS) rate was 81.0% in the TNT group and 84.0% in the CRT group (P=0.15). Out of 55 patients in the CRT group, 30 patients received adjuvant chemotherapy, 22 (40.0% of CRT cases) of which completed a full course. All 26 patients in the TNT group received neoadjuvant chemotherapy, where 22 (84.6%) patients took a full course (P<0.001). In conclusion, the present study revealed that patients treated with TNT were more compliant to chemotherapy than those treated with CRT. A numerically higher pCR rate, and nodal and tumor downstaging were noted in the TNT group without significance. No difference was noted in the 2‑year DFS. Longer follow‑up is required.
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El Husseini Z, Haibe Y, Bouferraa Y, Kreidieh M, Al Darazi M, Mukherji D, Temraz S, Charafeddine M and Shamseddine A: Total neoadjuvant therapy in patients with locally advanced rectal cancer: A tertiary medical center experience. Mol Clin Oncol 15: 220, 2021
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El Husseini, Z., Haibe, Y., Bouferraa, Y., Kreidieh, M., Al Darazi, M., Mukherji, D. ... Shamseddine, A. (2021). Total neoadjuvant therapy in patients with locally advanced rectal cancer: A tertiary medical center experience. Molecular and Clinical Oncology, 15, 220. https://doi.org/10.3892/mco.2021.2382
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El Husseini, Z., Haibe, Y., Bouferraa, Y., Kreidieh, M., Al Darazi, M., Mukherji, D., Temraz, S., Charafeddine, M., Shamseddine, A."Total neoadjuvant therapy in patients with locally advanced rectal cancer: A tertiary medical center experience". Molecular and Clinical Oncology 15.4 (2021): 220.
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El Husseini, Z., Haibe, Y., Bouferraa, Y., Kreidieh, M., Al Darazi, M., Mukherji, D., Temraz, S., Charafeddine, M., Shamseddine, A."Total neoadjuvant therapy in patients with locally advanced rectal cancer: A tertiary medical center experience". Molecular and Clinical Oncology 15, no. 4 (2021): 220. https://doi.org/10.3892/mco.2021.2382