Alliance Study Shows Some Patients with Locally Advanced Rectal Cancer Can Safely Avoid Radiation Therapy

Patients with locally advanced rectal cancer with tumors that respond to chemotherapy can safely forego radiation therapy before surgery based on the findings of the phase III Alliance PROSPECT (N1048) trial presented at the 2023 Annual Meeting of the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) and simultaneously published in the New England Journal of Medicine (efficacy) and the Journal of Clinical Oncology (patient reported outcomes) on June 4, 2023. Omitting radiation therapy can reduce s

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