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Rectal cancer still remains one of the most popular tumors, however, distance metastasis still remains as high as 30% and the long-term survival outcomes are still unsatisfying. The recent conception of total neoadjuvant therapy and immune therapy is becoming popular and the oncologic effects are encouraging, especially in terms of circulating tumor DNA (ctDNA), the prognostic value of ctDNA has been demonstrated by our prior study. This study will carry out accurate ctDNA-guided neoadjuvant therapy on the basis of previous studies of the research group, and give appropriate treatment plans and treatment intensity to patients with different disease degrees. At the same time, combined with the latest progress in clinical diagnosis and treatment, the potential beneficiaries of immunotherapy were screened scientifically, and the combined immunotherapy was implemented accordingly.


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Rectal cancer still remains one of the most popular tumors, a multidisciplinary approach including neoadjuvant chemoradiotherapy, total mesorectal excision and adjuvant chemotherapy has resulted a satisfying oncologic outcome in terms of reducing local recurrence and improving local control of disease for the treatment of rectal cancer, however, distance metastasis still remains as high as 30% and the long-term survival outcomes is still unsatisfying. The recent conception of total neoadjuvant therapy and immune therapy is becoming popular and the oncologic effects are encouraging, especially in terms of circulating tumor DNA (ctDNA), the prognostic value of ctDNA has been demonstrated by our prior study. This study demonstrated that ctDNA is an effective marker of tumor burden in real time and for the first time identified baseline ctDNA mutation frequency before nCRT as an independent prognostic factor for recent LARC recurrence and metastasis. This suggests that patients with different tumor burden according to baseline ctDNA mutation frequency should be given neoadjuvant therapy with corresponding intensity, in order to improve systemic disease control in patients with high risk of recurrence and metastasis, and to avoid overtreatment in patients with low risk. In conclusion, this study will carry out accurate ctDNA-guided neoadjuvant therapy on the basis of previous studies of the research group, and give appropriate treatment plans and treatment intensity to patients with different disease degrees. At the same time, combined with the latest progress in clinical diagnosis and treatment, the potential beneficiaries of immunotherapy were screened scientifically, and the combined immunetherapy was implemented accordingly. With the development of this study, several precision medicine research results obtained by our research group will be expected to be translated into clinical practice as soon as possible, which will improve the efficacy of LARC patients, reduce the rate of adverse reactions, and ultimately promote the improvement of the treatment level of rectal cancer and the more reasonable use of public medical resources. The patients with locally advanced rectal cancer staged as cT3-4N0/cTanyN+ will be included in this study. Patients will be randomized into two groups, the treatment group will receive different strategies after next generation sequencing of tumor tissue and IMC, those with MSI-H or TMB-H or POLE/PLOD1 mutation will be advised to receive immune therapy following neoadjuvant chemoradiotherapy (NCRT), and the others will be arranged to randomly receive NCRT (VAF<0.4%) or total neoadjuvant therapy (TNT) (VAF>0.4%) according to the VAF value of ctDNA; the control group will receive NCRT only. ;


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NCT number NCT05601505
Study type Interventional
Source Peking Union Medical College Hospital
Contact Lin guole, Doctor
Phone 13801081483
Email linguole@126.com
Status Recruiting
Phase Phase 2
Start date November 1, 2022
Completion date November 1, 2026

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