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Results of a pooled analysis of IOERT containing multimodality treatment for locally recurrent rectal cancer: Results of 565 patients of two major treatment centres

  • F. A. Holman
  • , S. J. Bosman
  • , M. G. Haddock
  • , L. L. Gunderson
  • , M. Kusters
  • , G. A. P. Nieuwenhuijzen
  • , H. van den Berg
  • , H. Nelson
  • , H. J. Rutten*
  • *Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

Objective: Aim of this study is analysing the pooled results of Intra-Operative Electron beam Radiotherapy (IOERT) containing multimodality treatment of locally recurrent rectal cancer (LRRC) of two major treatment centres.

Methods and materials: Five hundred sixty five patients with LRRC who underwent multimodality-treatment up to 2010 were studied. The preferred treatment was preoperative chemo-radiotherapy, surgery and IOERT. In uni- and multivariate analyses risk factors for local re recurrence, distant metastasis free survival, relapse free survival, cancer-specific survival and overall survival were studied.

Results: Two hundred fifty one patients (44%) underwent a radical (R0) resection. In patients who had no preoperative treatment the R0 resection rate was 26%, and this was 43% and 50% for patients who respectively received preoperative re-(chemo)-irradiation or full-course radiotherapy (p <0.0001). After uni-and multivariate analysis it was found that all oncologic parameters were influenced by preoperative treatment and radicality of the resection. Patients who were re-irradiated had a similar outcome compared to patients, who were radiotherapy naive and could undergo full-course treatment, except the chance of local re-recurrence was higher for re-irradiated patients. Waiting-time between preoperative radiotherapy and IOERT was inversely correlated with the chance of local re-recurrence, and positively correlated with the chance of a R0 resection.

Conclusions: R0 resection is the most important factor influencing oncologic parameters in treatment of LRRC. Preoperative (chemo)radiotherapy increases the chance of achieving radical resections and improves oncologic outcomes. Short waiting-times between preoperative treatment and IOERT improves the effectiveness of IOERT to reduce the chance of a local re-recurrence. (C) 2016 Elsevier Ltd, BASO - The Association for Cancer Surgery, and the European Society of Surgical Oncology. All rights reserved.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)107-117
Number of pages11
JournalEuropean Journal of Surgical Oncology
Volume43
Issue number1
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - Jan 2017

Keywords

  • Locally recurrent rectal cancer
  • Multimodality treatment
  • Chemo-radiation therapy
  • Re-irradiation
  • Local re-recurrence
  • Intra Operative Electron beam Radiation Therapy
  • INTRAOPERATIVE RADIATION-THERAPY
  • COLORECTAL-CANCER
  • PREOPERATIVE RADIOTHERAPY
  • SURGICAL RESECTION
  • IRRADIATION
  • MANAGEMENT
  • SURGERY
  • CHEMORADIOTHERAPY
  • CHEMORADIATION
  • REIRRADIATION

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