Laparoscopic transanal abdominal transanal resection with sphincter preservation for rectal cancer in the distal 3 cm of the rectum after neoadjuvant therapy

2010 ◽  
Vol 24 (11) ◽  
pp. 2700-2707 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. Marks ◽  
B. Mizrahi ◽  
S. Dalane ◽  
I. Nweze ◽  
G. Marks
2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yutian Zhao ◽  
Jiahao Zhu ◽  
Bo Yang ◽  
Qizhong Gao ◽  
Yu Xu ◽  
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Aim: To compare treatment outcomes of total neoadjuvant therapy (TNT) and the standard treatment for locally advanced rectal cancer (LARC). Materials & methods: Patients with LARC (cT2-4 and/or cN1-2) who were treated with preoperative chemoradiotherapy plus induction and consolidation chemotherapy followed by surgery or the standard treatment were recruited. Pathologic complete response (pCR) rate, overall survival, disease-free survival and the sphincter preservation rate as well as safety were evaluated. Results: 49 cases were treated with TNT and 71 cases received the standard treatment. Multivariate analysis demonstrated that TNT and tumor size were independent risk factors for pCR. Grade 3 chemoradiotherapy toxicity and postoperative complications were similar between the two groups. Conclusion: TNT improved the pCR rate for patients with LARC, with tolerable toxicities.


2013 ◽  
Vol 31 (31_suppl) ◽  
pp. 4-4
Author(s):  
Samantha K. Hendren ◽  
Ellen McKeown ◽  
Sandra L. Wong ◽  
Mary Oerline ◽  
Darrell A. Campbell ◽  
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4 Background: The quality of surgical care for rectal cancer (RC) has been extensively studied in Europe; however, efforts in the United States are limited by the lack of detail about surgical care in available registries. We describe a unique quality assessment program for RC designed within the Michigan Surgical Quality Collaborative (MSQC), a collaborative quality improvement organization that includes community and academic medical centers. Methods: 10 MSQC hospitals contributed to this retrospective cohort study (2007-2012). Experienced nurse reviewers were trained to abstract cancer surgery-specific data from hospital medical records and local tumor registries. Five RC surgery-specific quality measures were designed based on literature review and current guidelines: adequate lymph node (LN) procurement (>=12); use of mesorectal excision; rate of margin positivity; use of neoadjuvant therapy for clinical stage II/III; and sphincter preservation rate for mid/upper RC. Results: 353 RC cases were studied (333 radical surgery, 20 local surgery). Participating hospitals varied in size (5 <400 beds), teaching status (6 major teaching, 2 minor teaching, 2 non-teaching), and urban/rural location (9 urban). Challenges encountered in the data abstraction training process included overcoming technical jargon in pathology and operative reports. Regular conference calls, access to a specialist for questions, and modifications to definitions helped overcome difficulties; 9 of 10 abstractors scored >90% correct on test cases. Analysis reveals wide variation between hospitals on quality measures. 75% of cases had adequate LN procurement (range by hospital 64-100%); mesorectal excision was performed in 76% of cases (38-97%); 9% had positive margins (0-17%); 94% of clinical stage II/III cases had neoadjuvant therapy (67-100%); and 86% of eligible cases had sphincter preservation (62-100%). Conclusions: A program designed to provide salient feedback to surgeons regarding RC treatment is feasible, and reveals that high-quality processes of care are not consistently used. These data suggest opportunities for process improvement. The program will be disseminated statewide for prospective data feedback and quality assessment.


Submit Manuscript | http://medc rav eonline.co m Introduction Colorectal adenocarcinoma is the third most common malignant neoplasia and the third leading cause of death from cancer in men and women in the United States. Current data show that the incidence of colorectal adenocarcinoma is decreasing in developed countries but increasing in developing countries. 1 The 2018 estimates of the Bra - zilian National Cancer Institute (Instituto Nacional do Câncer–INCA) were 17,380 new cases in men and 18,980 in women, making col - orectal adenocarcinoma the third most common neoplasia in men and the second most common in women in Brazil. 2 In the past 15 years, rectal cancer management has evolved in several aspects. Specifical - ly, a better understanding of the natural history of the disease, more precise radiological staging, multimodal therapeutic intervention, refined surgical techniques, and more detailed histopathological re - ports may have positively influenced patient survival. In this context, multidisciplinary management of colorectal cancer plays an important role and requires the coordinated teamwork of colorectal surgeons, oncologists, radiologists, and radiotherapists. 3 Total mesorectal exci - sion is still the basis of treatment in rectal cancer. However, neoadju - vant therapy and more conservative practices have been adopted in cases of clinical/pathological responses to radiochemotherapy. 4 Ra - diological evaluation of the response is of paramount importance for the selection of patients eligible for alternative treatment strategies, including ‘watch-and-wait’. Diffusion-weighted imaging is already being used routinely in the evaluation of the pathological response of rectal tumour patients submitted to neoadjuvant therapy. Some re - searchers have tried to estimate the tumour regression grade (TRG) using magnetic resonance imaging, as has been described for post-ra - diochemotherapy pathological evaluation, thus rendering it a valuable instrument. Considering the good results obtained with multimodal therapy in extraperitoneal rectal cancer, the evaluation of the pathological re - sponse post-neoadjuvant therapy must be considered as a factor for safe indication, both for the conservative option, in which the organ is preserved, and for radical surgical resection, influencing the choice between sphincter-preserving surgery and abdominoperineal excision. A precise evaluation, by comparing the results of post-neoadjuvant therapy magnetic resonance imaging with those obtained from his - Int J Radiol Radiat Ther. 2018;5(4):254 ‒ 258. 254 © 2018 Oliveira et al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License , which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and build upon your work non-commercially. Magnetic resonance imaging is effective in assessing tumour regression after neoadjuvancy in rectal adenocarcinoma

Author(s):  
Fábio Henrique de Oliveira ◽  
Antônio Lacerda-Filho ◽  
Fábio Lopes de Queiroz ◽  
Tatiana Martins Gomide Leite ◽  
Paulo Guilherme Oliveira Sales ◽  
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2018 ◽  
Vol 86 (December) ◽  
pp. 3625-3632
Author(s):  
KHALED S. ABBAS, M.D.; WALID M. ABD EL-MAKSOUD, M.D. ◽  
AHMED M. HUSSEIN, M.Sc.

Author(s):  
Gabriele Anania ◽  
Richard Justin Davies ◽  
Alberto Arezzo ◽  
Francesco Bagolini ◽  
Vito D’Andrea ◽  
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Abstract The role of lateral lymph node dissection (LLND) during total mesorectal excision (TME) for rectal cancer is still controversial. Many reviews were published on prophylactic LLND in rectal cancer surgery, some biased by heterogeneity of overall associated treatments. The aim of this systematic review and meta-analysis is to perform a timeline analysis of different treatments associated to prophylactic LLND vs no-LLND during TME for rectal cancer. Methods A literature search was performed in PubMed, SCOPUS and WOS for publications up to 1 September 2020. We considered RCTs and CCTs comparing oncologic and functional outcomes of TME with or without LLND in patients with rectal cancer. Results Thirty-four included articles and 29 studies enrolled 11,606 patients. No difference in 5-year local recurrence (in every subgroup analysis including preoperative neoadjuvant chemoradiotherapy), 5-year distant and overall recurrence, 5-year overall survival and 5-year disease-free survival was found between LLND group and non LLND group. The analysis of post-operative functional outcomes reported hindered quality of life (urinary, evacuatory and sexual dysfunction) in LLND patients when compared to non LLND. Conclusion Our publication does not demonstrate that TME with LLND has any oncological advantage when compared to TME alone, showing that with the advent of neoadjuvant therapy, the advantage of LLND is lost. In this review, the most important bias is the heterogeneous characteristics of patients, cancer staging, different neoadjuvant therapy, different radiotherapy techniques and fractionation used in different studies. Higher rate of functional post-operative complications does not support routinely use of LLND.


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