• Br J Surg · Dec 2021

    Early response to upfront neoadjuvant chemotherapy (CAPOX) alone in low- and intermediate-risk rectal cancer: a single-arm phase II trial.

    • Xiangbing Deng, Qingbin Wu, Liang Bi, Yongyang Yu, Shuo Huang, Du He, Bing Wu, Hongfeng Gou, Wenjian Meng, Meng Qiu, Yazhou He, and Ziqiang Wang.
    • Department of Gastrointestinal Surgery, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, Chengdu, China.
    • Br J Surg. 2021 Dec 17; 109 (1): 121128121-128.

    BackgroundWith local recurrence of rectal cancer continuing to decrease, distant recurrence is becoming a major concern, especially for patients with low- and intermediate-risk stage II/III rectal cancer. Therefore, a new treatment strategy is warranted for these patients. This single-arm phase II trial aimed to assess the effect of neoadjuvant chemotherapy (NCT) in low- and intermediate-risk stage II/III rectal cancer and explore candidate radiological and clinical parameters for early prediction of tumour response after two cycles of CAPOX.MethodsPatients with mid-low stage II/III rectal cancer with low and intermediate risk were examined. The primary outcome was defined as a clinicopathological response by integrating tumour longitudinal length reduction (TLLR) on MRI into pathological tumour regression grade (TRG). After completing NCT, patients with TRG0-2 and TRG3 with a TLLR rate greater than 30 per cent were considered to be responders. Secondary outcomes included pathological complete response (pCR), adverse events and local and distant recurrence.ResultsThis study enrolled 61 eligible patients. No patient was converted to neoadjuvant chemoradiotherapy owing to tumour progression. The clinicopathological response and pCR rates were 78.7 and 21.3 per cent respectively. After two cycles of CAPOX, TLLR, TRG on MRI, and mucosal lesion regression grade on endoscopy had potential discriminative ability (area under the curve greater than 0.7) for predicting both clinicopathological and pathological response.ConclusionNCT alone achieves good tumour response rates in patients with low- and intermediate-risk stage II/III rectal cancer, and predicting tumour response to NCT is feasible at an early treatment phase.Registration NumberNCT03666442 (http://www.clinicaltrials.gov).© The Author(s) 2021. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of BJS Society Ltd.

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