Rectal Neoplasms Clinical Trial
Official title:
Neoadjuvant Chemoradiotherapy and Consolidation Chemotherapy for Rectal Cancer: A Randomized Controlled Trial
The purpose of this protocol is to compare neoadjuvant chemoradiation plus consolidation chemotherapy before surgical resection with the standard neoadjuvant chemoradiation followed by surgical resection and adjuvant chemotherapy in patients with rectal cancer.
Colorectal cancer is the second leading cause of cancer-related deaths worldwide. It is estimated that 10% of cancer mortality is attributed to malignant neoplasms of the colon and rectum. More specifically, in the United States alone, 53,200 colorectal cancer deaths were reported. The current treatment of choice for locally advanced rectal cancer (Stage II/ III) is the combination of neoadjuvant chemoradiation followed by radical surgical resection based on the principles of total mesorectal excision (TME) after a 8-12 weeks period. Therapy is usually completed with the administration of adjuvant chemotherapy based on oxaliplatin and fluoropyrimidines. This combined approach allowed the reduction of local recurrence at levels around 5%. Despite the impressive results in local control, the same was not confirmed for the long-term, overall survival. Possible explanations to that are: a) the compliance and completion of the treatment schemes during the postoperative period were low and b) there was a delay in the administration of adjuvant chemotherapy; both could lead to subclinical metastatic disease progression. On the basis of achieving both goals, (i.e., local control through neoadjuvant radiotherapy and metastatic disease control through systemic chemotherapy) the administration of the two therapies in the preoperative period was proposed, in the form of combined or total neoadjuvant therapy. Additional theoretical benefits of total neoadjuvant therapy is faster defunctioning stoma reversal, as well as, the possibility of a more accurate evaluation of the tumor biological behavior, thus enabling a safer staging for patients who would be candidates for a watch and wait protocol. Furthermore, for patients who will eventually undergo surgery, total neoadjuvant therapy could probably increase R0 resection and sphincter-preservation rates. However, many researchers question the safety and efficacy of total neoadjuvant therapy. First, the administration of neoadjuvant chemotherapy significantly increases the risk of severe toxicity from cytotoxic agents. At the same time, according to the results of one of the largest prospective randomized trials, the addition of neoadjuvant chemotherapy into the treatment algorithm did not offer any advantage in the pathological response, 5-year overall and disease-free survival rates. Finally, there is considerable heterogeneity in the current literature, most likely reflecting the different schemes used in different trials regarding the radiotherapy regimen, the chemotherapy regimen as well as the sequence of each one in each protocol. The investigators believe that it is difficult to interpret any differences in results when multiple parameters have been changed in a comparative trial. For this reason when testing the current standard neoadjuvant protocol to the new trend of total neoadjuvant therapy it was decided to keep the same scheme and timing for the experimental group while the only parameter which was different was the use of the classic chemotherapy scheme during the waiting period following chemoradiation and before surgery. ;
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