Clinical staging accuracy and the use of neoadjuvant chemoradiotherapy for cT3N0 rectal cancer: Propensity score matched National Cancer Database analysis.

American Journal of Surgery
Dominykas BurneikisScott R Steele

Abstract

While neoadjuvant chemoradiation therapy (nCRT) is accepted as standard of care for locally advanced rectal cancer, the approach to treatment of patients with clinically staged T3N0 disease has been increasingly debated. This study examines the accuracy of clinical staging for cT3N0 rectal cancer as recorded in the National Cancer Data Base and evaluates the role of nCRT in treating these patients. Total of 15,843 patients with clinically staged T3N0M0 rectal cancer who either received nCRT or proceeded to surgery-first met inclusion criteria. Propensity score matching was employed to balance the groups. 23% of cT3N0 patients undergoing surgery-first were found to have pathologically positive nodes. Another 16% turned out to have < stage II disease on surgical pathology. Survival curves for matched nCRT and surgery-first groups demonstrated a survival advantage for cT3N0 patients treated with nCRT. Poor clinical staging accuracy can result in both undertreatment and overtreatment of cT3N0 rectal cancer.

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