Clinical parameters predicting pathologic complete response following neoadjuvant chemoradiotherapy for rectal cancer.

CONCLUSIONS: The pretreatment CEA level and neoadjuvant chemoradiotherapy-surgery interval were independent clinical predictors for achieving pCR. These results may help clinicians predict the prognosis of patients and develop adaptive treatment strategies. PMID: 26268466 [PubMed - in process]

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26268466?dopt=Abstract

Source: Chinese Journal of Cancer - August 15, 2015 Category: Cancer & Oncology Tags: Chin J Cancer Source Type: research