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Watchful Waiting for Complete Responders to Therapy in Rectal Cancer

NCT05526079 · Status: RECRUITING · Phase: PHASE2 · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 30

Last updated 2024-01-29

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

The purpose of this project is to determine if in a selected group of patients, at higher risk of wound dehiscence and other complications, treatment by local excision and management by a "watchful waiting" or an initial "non-operative management" approach, with an offer of radical resection only to those patients whose tumors demonstrate "regrowth" will maintain acceptable local control and overall survival rate for the whole cohort.

Conditions

Interventions

OTHER

Watchfuf waiting

Careful review of patient response with the hope of avoiding radical surgery.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Henry Ford Health System

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Amr Aref, MD · Ascension St. John Hospital

Study Design

Allocation
NA
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
NONE
Model
SINGLE_GROUP

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Max Age
95 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2018-07-10
Primary Completion
2028-07-09
Completion
2029-07-09

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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Diseases

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