TY - JOUR AU - Song, Andrew AU - Lu, Bo PY - 2018 TI - When watching and waiting is enough: managing locally advanced rectal cancer without surgery JF - Therapeutic Radiology and Oncology; Vol 2 (October 2018): Therapeutic Radiology and Oncology Y2 - 2018 KW - N2 - The recently published “Long-term outcomes of clinical complete responders after neoadjuvant treatment for rectal cancer in the International Watch & Wait Database (IWWD): an international multicentre registry study” by van der Valk et al. in Lancet Oncology poses an interesting question (1). Could rectal cancer patients with locally advanced disease treated with neoadjuvant therapy sans resection patients be spared from a major operation, or possibly postponed indefinitely? UR - https://tro.amegroups.org/article/view/4633