Response to the comment on 'Selected stage IV rectal cancer patients managed by the watch-and-wait approach after pelvic radiotherapy: a good alternative to total mesorectal excision surgery?'

Petra A Custers^{1

2}, Geerard L Beets^{1

2}, Jarno Melenhorst³

Affiliations

¹ Department of Surgery, Netherlands Cancer Institute - Antoni van Leeuwenhoek, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
² GROW School for Oncology and Developmental Biology - Maastricht University, Maastricht, The Netherlands.
³ Department of Surgery, Maastricht University Medical Centre, Maastricht, The Netherlands.

Comment

Petra A Custers et al. Colorectal Dis. 2022 Jul.

. 2022 Jul;24(7):878-879.

doi: 10.1111/codi.16109. Epub 2022 Mar 24.

Petra A Custers^{1

2}, Geerard L Beets^{1

2}, Jarno Melenhorst³

¹ Department of Surgery, Netherlands Cancer Institute - Antoni van Leeuwenhoek, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
² GROW School for Oncology and Developmental Biology - Maastricht University, Maastricht, The Netherlands.
³ Department of Surgery, Maastricht University Medical Centre, Maastricht, The Netherlands.

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Comment on

Selected stage IV rectal cancer patients managed by the watch-and-wait approach after pelvic radiotherapy: a good alternative to total mesorectal excision surgery?
Custers PA, Hupkens BJP, Grotenhuis BA, Kuhlmann KFD, Breukink SO, Beets GL, Melenhorst J; Dutch Watch-and-Wait Consortium (collaborators). Custers PA, et al. Colorectal Dis. 2022 Apr;24(4):401-410. doi: 10.1111/codi.16034. Epub 2022 Jan 21. Colorectal Dis. 2022. PMID: 35060263 Free PMC article.
Expanding the utility of the watch-and-wait approach to stage IV patients: Results from the Dutch consortium.
Kazi M, Saklani A. Kazi M, et al. Colorectal Dis. 2022 Jul;24(7):876-877. doi: 10.1111/codi.16111. Epub 2022 Mar 24. Colorectal Dis. 2022. PMID: 35258147 No abstract available.

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