ReviewInsights into imaging2019
Response evaluation after neoadjuvant treatment for rectal cancer using modern MR imaging: a pictorial review.
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53 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
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- MRI Assessment of Complete Response to Preoperative Chemoradiation Therapy for Rectal Cancer: 2020 Guide for Practice from the Korean Society of Abdominal Radiology.Korean journal of radiology · 2020Pooled it
- Total Neoadjuvant Therapy Versus Long-Course Chemoradiotherapy in Locally Advanced Rectal Cancer: Real-World Tumor Response and Clinical Outcomes.Medical sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- Radiomics analysis of restaging MRI for detection of pathological complete response in locally advanced rectal cancer.European journal of radiology open · 2026Article
- MRI Based Radiomics as an Imaging Biomarker for Locally Advanced Carcinoma Rectum: Predicting Tumor Response Following Neoadjuvant Chemoradiotherapy as an Organ Preservation Strategy.Cancer reports (Hoboken, N.J.) · 2026Article
- Potential Role of T2-Weighted Kurtosis in Improving Response Prediction of Locally Advanced Rectal Cancer as Additional Tool Gained from Standard MRI Examination.Biomedicines · 2025Article
- Effects of clinical information on the treatment decisions for good responders to neoadjuvant chemoradiotherapy among rectal cancer patients.Annals of coloproctology · 2025Article
- Organ preservation in rectal cancer: opportunity within boundaries.International journal of colorectal disease · 2025Article
- The tumour-stroma ratio as predictive aid towards a biopsy-based treatment strategy in rectal carcinoma.Histopathology · 2025Article
- MRI T1 relaxation time for evaluating early complete response to neoadjuvant treatment in rectal cancer: measurement at six weeks - a protocol article.Acta radiologica open · 2025Article
- Comparative effectiveness of two abbreviated rectal MRI protocols in assessing tumor response to neoadjuvant chemoradiotherapy in patients with rectal cancer.Oncology letters · 2024Article
- The Role of Predictive and Prognostic MRI-Based Biomarkers in the Era of Total Neoadjuvant Treatment in Rectal Cancer.Cancers · 2024Review
- A magnetic resonance imaging-based lymph node regression grading scheme for nasopharyngeal carcinoma after radiotherapy.Quantitative imaging in medicine and surgery · 2024Article
- Neoadjuvant treatment of rectal cancer: Where we are and where we are going.World journal of clinical oncology · 2024Article
- Watch & wait - Post neoadjuvant imaging for rectal cancer.Clinical imaging · 2024Review
- Outcomes and potential impact of a virtual hands-on training program on MRI staging confidence and performance in rectal cancer.European radiology · 2024Article
- An automated deep learning pipeline for EMVI classification and response prediction of rectal cancer using baseline MRI: a multi-centre study.NPJ precision oncology · 2024Article
- Prognostic factors for local recurrence in patients with rectal cancer submitted to neoadjuvant chemoradiotherapy and total mesorectal excision.Clinics (Sao Paulo, Brazil) · 2024Article
- Advances in MRI-Based Assessment of Rectal Cancer Post-Neoadjuvant Therapy: A Comprehensive Review.Journal of clinical medicine · 2023Review
- The Multipurpose Usage of Diffusion-Weighted MRI in Rectal Cancer.Medicina (Kaunas, Lithuania) · 2023Article
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Abstract
In recent years, neoadjuvant chemoradiotherapy (CRT) has become the standard of care for patients with locally advanced rectal cancer. Until recently, patients routinely proceeded to surgical resection after CRT, regardless of the response. Nowadays, treatment is tailored depending on the response to chemoradiotherapy. In patients that respond very well to CRT, organ-preserving treatments such as watch-and-wait are increasingly considered as an alternative to surgery. To facilitate such personalized treatment planning, there is now an increased demand for more detailed radiological response evaluation after chemoradiation. MRI is one of the main tools used to assess response, but has difficulties in assessing response within areas of post-radiation fibrosis. Hence, MR sequences such as diffusion-weighted imaging are increasingly adopted in clinical MR protocols to improve the differentiation between tumor and fibrosis. In this pictorial review, we discuss the strengths and weaknesses of modern MR imaging, including functional imaging sequences such as diffusion-weighted MRI, for response evaluation after chemoradiation treatment and provide the main pearls and pitfalls for image interpretation.
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