Session 3: Beyond TME and radiotherapy MRI evaluation of rectal cancer treatment response

Colorectal Dis. 2018 May:20 Suppl 1:76-81. doi: 10.1111/codi.14084.

Abstract

Magnetic resonance imaging plays an increasingly important role in evaluating the effect of cancer treatment. Imaging alone cannot predict pathological complete response and imaging interpretation should be combined with clinical information and endoscopy findings to predict complete response. Professor Blomqvist reviews current and future imaging techniques and whether the quantitative can add significant or important prognostic information over the current qualitative techniques.

Publication types

  • Review

MeSH terms

  • Chemoradiotherapy / methods
  • Consensus
  • Diffusion Magnetic Resonance Imaging / methods*
  • Disease-Free Survival
  • Female
  • Humans
  • Male
  • Neoadjuvant Therapy / methods*
  • Neoplasm Invasiveness / pathology
  • Neoplasm Staging
  • Proctectomy / methods
  • Prognosis
  • Rectal Neoplasms / diagnostic imaging*
  • Rectal Neoplasms / mortality
  • Rectal Neoplasms / pathology
  • Rectal Neoplasms / therapy*
  • Risk Assessment
  • Survival Analysis